Vista & Piracy
BitLocker Drive Encryption
Data security on lost or stolen PC devices is a growing concern among security experts and corporate executives. The data stored on the PC asset is often significantly more valuable to a corporation than the asset itself, and the loss, theft or unwanted disclosure of that data can be very damaging.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a [...]
Data protection with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption
Organizations face increasing concerns around intellectual property and sensitive data being compromised on a lost, stolen, or recycled computer. To address this issue, Windows Vista Enterprise includes Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, a new technology that helps prevent sensitive data and intellectual property from falling into the wrong hands.
Windows BitLocker uses hardware-enabled full-volume data encryption technology [...]
Windows Vista Security
Microsoft is making fundamental investments in technology to help make customers more secure. Efforts include using a security development lifecycle to develop more secure software and providing technology innovation in the platform to provide layered defense, or defense-in-depth.
Windows Vista includes many security features and improvements to protect client computers from the latest generation of [...]
Firewall
The personal firewall built into Windows Vista builds on the functionality that is included with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. It also includes application-aware outbound filtering, which gives you full, directional control over traffic. For example, Windows Firewall in Windows Vista will allow administrators to block applications (such as peer-to-peer sharing or instant [...]
Windows Service Hardening
Feature Description
Windows Service Hardening restricts critical Windows services from doing abnormal activities in the file system, registry, network, or other resources that could be used to allow malware to install itself or attack other computers. For example, the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service can be restricted from replacing system files or modifying the registry.
Windows services [...]
Internet Explorer Enhancements
Feature Description
Windows Vista will build upon the User Account Control initiative to limit Internet Explorer to just enough privileges to browse the Web, but not enough to modify user files or settings by default. This Windows Vista-only feature, known as Protected mode, will be in Windows Vista Beta 2. As a result, even if [...]
Data Protection
Feature Description
Theft or loss of corporate intellectual property is an increasing concern for organizations. Windows Vista has improved support for data protection at the document, file, directory, and machine level. The integrated Rights Management client allows organizations to enforce policies around document usage. The Encrypting File System, which provides user-based file and directory encryption, has [...]
