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( This is part 5 of our series of posts on service hardening .) Last but not least a service can be (and should be) configured to have network restrictions with what is called the "Windows Service Hardening" rules in the Windows SDK (we'll call those
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( This is part 4 of our series of posts on service hardening. ) A service can be configured to be write-restricted, in addition to having a per-service SID. To do so, you specify a SID type of "Restricted" when configuring your service (see our previous
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(This is part 3 of our series of posts on service hardening.) Under Windows Vista/Longhorn Server, your service can now have its own SID (Security Identifier), which you can then use in ACLs to protect your service resources. You configure your service
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This is part 2 of our series of posts on service hardening. "Need to have" and least privilege principle Executing with least privilege is a good practice of computer security. As with the "need to know" principle for information access, there should
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You may have heard that built-in services in Windows Vista were specifically hardened by Microsoft engineers during its development process. You might be wondering what that really means, how it works and, if you are a developer, how to harden your own
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