My latest article was published online today - it's an overview of new security features added into Windows 7 and some of the refinements to UAC and others.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.05.win7.aspx
I'm really excited about AppLocker... If anyone wants to test it out in your organization...I'm game to help... This is an extremely important security feature in my opinion...
The UAC slider is a nice feature, but as I wrote in my last two posts, you need to understand that UAC is about helping you run as a Standard User. I'll put up a post in the near future that explains how to do that. Actually, this week someone asked me if I *actually* run as a Standard User? Aghast, I replied, "Yeah, that's the only way I log on to my computers." IMO, there is no reason to run as an Administrator any more on Windows Vista or Windows 7. That said, you still need access to Administrator privileges.
The new Authentication technologies are super exciting. WBF is really cool. BitLocker-To-Go is going to be really interesting for many enterprises.
Enjoy the article and let me know if you have any comments
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Apr 04 2009, 07:02 PM
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Chris Corio