Microsoft Windows operating system security

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Agentless Architecture: Agentless Backup is Not a Myth by Asigra Inc.
the network without the use of agents, consider how a local hard drive in a Microsoft Windows server can be backed up over the network. A system administrator accesses the local hard drive...
7 Things Every System Administrator Should Know about OpenSSH by Global Knowledge
stream. SSH implementations exist for every major platform including Microsoft Windows. This paper will focus on the OpenSSH implementation, which was initially developed as part...
Windows 7 Review Guide by Global Knowledge
Era. DOS 3 was good; DOS 4 was a clunker. The same variability held true with Windows: Windows 98 was good, Windows ME was a clunker. Then Microsoft put together back-to-back winners with...
Choosing an Enterprise-Class Wireless Operating System: A Comparison of Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile by BlackBerry
use of the device will not compromise the integrity of the company's security. Security considerations remain the single biggest limitation to more aggressive expansion of...
Recovery Manager for Active Directory by ScriptLogic Corporation
and faulty scripts can overwrite attributes. The result is unplanned system downtime andf lost user productivity. Product Type: Active Directory Recovery

Target User: IT...
Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance with Lumension Solutions by Lumension
Least Privilege" restricting user and machine rights. In addition to the operating system coverage, the FDCC configuration standards extend to Windows Internet Explorer, Windows...
The Return on Investment of Open Source Data Integration by Talend
training and rampup, development and maintenance time, hardware and operating system, IT operations, etc. It also considers many intangible elements such as reliability...
Remotely Manage Wired and Wireless PCs from the Same IT Console by Intel Corporation
and manageability capabilities - even if PC power is off, the operating system (OS) is unresponsive, software agents are disabled, or hardware (such as a hard drive) has...
Vista SP1: What You Need to Know before You Deploy by Global Knowledge
affect customers, but it does not deliver substantial new operating system features...
Desktop Authority Password Self-Service Version 4.1.1 by ScriptLogic Corporation
Authority® Password Self-Service™ provides an easy-to-use, robust system for allowing users to reset their own forgotten passwords or locked accounts, eliminating the...
Automating Virtual Lab Infrastructure and IT Service Delivery with Microsoft and Surgient by Microsoft and Surgient
operating expenses and increasing business productivity. Microsoft and Surgient virtualization and automation platforms provide enterprise IT organizations...
IT Download: Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 by Symantec Corporation
users worldwide have chosen Symantec's Backup Exec family, the leading Windows backup and recovery solution. Product Type
Back up and storage

Target User
FIT

IT Problem
There...
Large School District Transitions from Kronos to GHG for Their Time & Attendance Solution by GHG Corporation
is easily queried and maintained. KISD was using a time and attendance system from Kronos, which utilized 80 Accu-Time time clocks, the vendor would no longer provide...
Sun for Windows Essential Business Server Solution by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
Read this brief document to learn how the Sun for Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) solution utilizes a single server and Microsoft's powerful...
Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Sun Fire X64 Servers by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
server. Two VMs were configured to use separate RAID volumes for the operating system and data; the third VM was configured to use a single RAID volume. Deploying a virtualized...
Idera SQL safe backup - High performance backup and recovery for SQL Server by Idera
39; data. Without this, backup times can easily exceed maintenance windows, huge amounts of storage space are needed, and managing backup jobs across multiple servers...
Sawmill 8 - Web Log Analysis Tool by Flowerfire, Inc.
hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system. Product Type: Web log analysis

Target User: Web Analytics professionals

IT Problem:
Sawmill is a...
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 PKI and Deploying the nCipher Hardware Security Module by Thales
the Windows Server 2008 PKI and the nCipher nShield and netHSM hardware security modules(HSM). This includes the essential concepts and technologies used to deploy a PKI and the...
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 PKI and Deploying the nCipher Hardware Security Module by Thales
the Windows Server 2008 PKI and the nCipher nShield and netHSM hardware security modules(HSM). This includes the essential concepts and technologies used to deploy a PKI and the...
Enterprise Desktop Resource Center
Microsoft revises Windows 7 downgrade terms by Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director
, now have 18 months to downgrade those machines to previous versions of Windows, Microsoft said this week.

That's a big improvement over the six month deadline the company had originally outlined... More...

Jun 18, 2009
Enterprise Desktop Advice
What are the security advantages of upgrading to Windows 2000? XP?
Please note: The Orange Book (and subsequently the C2 certification) is very out of date and not really a good standard for operating system security.

But we can stil look at the basic features of C2 to understand how security is used in a Windows NT/2000 system:
1. Mandatory... More...

Oct 25, 2001
Desktop security tools
What are your recommendations for desktop security? The operating system is Windows XP professional running on Novell. What standard applications do you recommend? In addition to a good... More...
Oct 11, 2005