Securing the Administrator Account in Microsoft Windows Systems The Administrator account is a default account used in all versions of the Windows operating system. The Administrator account is used by system administrators for tasks that require administrative credentials. The Administrator account cannot be deleted or locked out, but the account can be renamed or disabled. The Administrator account… Read More »
The Importance of Patch Management The threat of malicious virus and worm attacks on Microsoft based systems has been increasing which is forcing businesses to reevaluate their organizations security needs to better protect their systems. Microsoft produces security patches for their system vulnerabilities and makes them available to users. Research has shown that the most efficient way to… Read More »
Access Control List – ACL, DACL, SACL, ACE Solomon (2014) states that an Access Control List (ACL) is a list of access control rules that can be applied to a specific object. ACL’s that are used in in Windows are considered discretionary so they are also known as Discretionary Access Control Lists (DACL). DACL’s consists of one or… Read More »