Tuesday, 7 June 2011

For A Good Read – Microsoft’s Windows 7 Threats and Countermeasures Guide

Microsoft recently released a complete guide to the security settings in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that provides a full explanation of each setting.

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The guide is available here:

The document weighs in at 387 pages so it is quite comprehensive in its explanation of the various ways and means of securing and monitoring a Windows network.

On page 47 we find:

Audit object access
This security audit policy setting enables auditing of the event that is generated by a user who accesses an object—for example, a file, folder, registry key, or printer—that has a SACL that specifies a requirement for auditing.

How many of us have had to try and figure out which user or users are “accidentally” deleting data on a client’s network? Auditing object access is the way to find out.

Check out the guide as it is well worth it to read through and also to use as a reference.

Hat Tip: Yuri Diogenes

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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