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Detailed Overview of PremierAccess
White Paper PremierAccess is policy-based access control software that allows you to personalize user access rights and privileges. The PKI component supports industry standard X.509 certificates,... [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Cross was the group program manager for UAC, which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather than having administrator privileges, and offers a prompt if... [18 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard... [14 Apr 2008]
Warning over "critical" QuickTime hole
News LMH, the alias of one of the two security researchers behind the Month of the Apple Bugs, said: "The risk is having your system compromised by a remote attacker, who can perform any operation under privileges of your... [03 Jan 2007]
The Mysteries of Windows Vista User Accounts
White Paper Running with administrator privileges is a root cause of many of XP's well-documented security woes. Windows Vista will enhance the scope of limited accounts, which will be called "Standard... [11 Dec 2006]
Achieve the Non-Admin Dream With User Account Control
White Paper Fewer users running with administrator privileges is a worthy goal in most IT organizations. But while IT administrators generally agree that restricting users to a standard user account... [06 Dec 2006]
User Account Control Overview
White Paper In Windows Vista, Microsoft has developed a simple and more secure mechanism for running in Standard User mode with common operating system configuration tasks that currently require elevated... [06 Dec 2006]
Old malware can affect Vista, admits Microsoft
News IT managers can run Vista end-user accounts with limited "standard user" privileges, rather than administrator privileges. Microsoft stopped short of... [05 Dec 2006]
Long-awaited Windows Vista launches today
News The ability to define more users as standard users rather than administrators will prove very attractive, according to analysts, by helping secure corporate networks against worms and viruses that use administrator... [30 Nov 2006]
Windows Vista Feature Focus: User Account Control
White Paper Now, even administrators will typically run most applications and system services with Standard User privileges by default, providing a smaller "Attack surface" for electronic attacks... [23 Nov 2006]
TechNet Webcast: Limiting Administrator Privileges With User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista (Level 200)
White Paper Companies today face a difficult trade-off: Is it better to deploy PC users as administrators and accept the high security risk, or to limit user privileges, which has implications for application... [14 Sep 2006]
Best practice: Making life easier for business travellers
Comment Recognise that sales may need different devices, access methods and privileges compared to a field engineer or a marketing executive. Pull, where the user has to initiate the session, can take a minute... [14 Jun 2006]
IE 7: Microsoft battles spyware threat
News When users run programs with limited user privileges, they are safer from attack than when they run with administrator privileges, because Windows can restrict the malicious code from... [14 Jun 2005]
Unpatched Internet Explorer holes found
News This means that attackers could run programs and view files using the privileges of the user running IE. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), the net security watchdog, released a security... [14 Jun 2004]
SAM Product Line: A Brief Description of the Components
White Paper Connected by target system interfaces (TSIs), SAM enables the management of user accounts and access privileges for diverse systems and applications. Systems that can be linked by... [27 May 2004]
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