Sybex - Administering Windows Vista Security - The Big Surprises

• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Administering Windows Vista Security-The Big Surprises
• Introduction-How to Keep Vista Security from Giving You a Stroke
  • Vista Turns Out to Be More Than Just a Pretty Face. Who Knew?
  • Meet the Coauthors
  • What's Inside This Book
  • Stay Up to Date with My Free Newsletter
  • Contacting Us
• Chapter 1: Administering Vista Security-The Little Surprises
  • Power Users Are Essentially Gone
  • BOOT.INI Is Gone, BCD Is Here
  • IPv6 and Network Properties
  • Remote Desktop Gets a Bit More Secure
  • Changes in Security Options
  • Encryption News
  • New Event Viewer
• • Why UAC Is Good, after All
  • An Overview of UAC
  • Digging Deeper into UAC
  • Reconfiguring User Account Control
  • Will UAC Succeed?
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Help for Those Lame Apps-File and Registry Virtualization
  • Seeing File Virtualization in Action
  • File and Registry Virtualization Considerations
  • Which Areas Are Protected and Where They Are Virtualized
  • Seeing Virtualization in Standard Versus Administrative Users
  • Tracking Virtualization
  • A Possible Virtualization Problem
  • Controlling Virtualization
  • The Future of Virtualization
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Understanding Windows Integrity Control
  • Mandatory Controls Versus Discretionary Controls
  • WIC Components
  • Seeing Processes in Action
  • Using WIC ACEs to Restrict Access
  • Things WIC ACEs Can't Do
  • A Note on Modifying System Files
  • Dialing Up Custom Labels
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: BitLocker-Solving the Laptop Security Problem
  • The Laptop Security Problem Today
  • BitLocker Drive Encryption-the Overview
  • Full Disk Encryption
  • Authentication or Access Control
  • Enabling BitLocker for the First Time
  • Using BitLocker without a TPM
  • Recovery
  • BitLocker and Active Directory
  • Group Policy Options
  • Managing the TPM and BitLocker in the Enterprise
  • Servicing a BitLocker-Protected Computer
  • Secure Decommissioning
  • Planning for BitLocker Deployment
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: Post-Boot Protection-Code Integrity, New Code Signing Rules, and PatchGuard
  • Giving 64-bit More Armor
  • Code Integrity
  • New Code Signing Rules
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: How Vista Secures Services
  • Service Control Manager
  • How Vista Toughens Services: Overview
  • Session Separation
  • Reducing Service Privileges
  • Service Isolation
  • Restricting a Service's Network Ports
  • Summary
• Index
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• List of Figures
• List of Tables