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Windows 2000 Built in Security Tools Windows NT has some excellent security tools and features built into the operating system. In addition the operating system provides tools for security policy and account management and the Windows NT security model is flexible and can support a wide range of configurations.
By Jeff Christman, 05/17/2004
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End to End Security for Windows 2000 Server This document provides background information and detailed steps that should be taken in order to harden the windows 2000 operating systems against common network security attack. Please note however that operating system hardening procedures cannot be followed blindly. Operating system hardening involves, among other things, turning off all services that are not required for particular application. For this reason, each operating system hardening instance must be customized and this document should only be considered as a general guideline to follow during this customization.
By DaAnZeR, 10/21/2004
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DoD-Certified Trusted Systems And You - Part One Windows NT 4.0 was deemed C2 compliant on 02 December, 1999, as a result of an extensive survey performed according to the Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation Criteria, the United States Department of Defense analysis protocols. The famed Orange Book review means that DoD service components and agencies are authorized to use NT 4.0 as purchased "off the shelf" for government and military sensitive information.
By Ben Malisow, 07/30/2004
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Dealing with Windows NT Event Logs Part Two In the first installment of this article, we reviewed some of the basics regarding Windows NT event logging, including the architecture of the Event Log service and ways to export Event Log information. In the second installment, I will demonstrate how to manage the function of logging Windows NT to syslog and look at an alternative to the vanilla syslog daemon. We will take a look at how to examine your syslog output to provide real-time analysis and alerting of system events. Finally, I will show you how to log your own events and what security-related events you should look for.
By Cory L. Scott, 07/30/2004
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Dealing with Windows NT Event Logs, Part One While Windows 2000 promises many changes in the Windows NT architecture, Microsoft is making very few changes to the event log and event monitoring components of the operating system. Since maintaining and dealing with Windows event logs can be a frustrating experience for most conscientious system administrators, this lack of improvement is disappointing. The Event Viewer, through the standard standalone application or through the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), is often not powerful enough to display just the right view of system activity that a system administrator needs. Witness the pop-up of an entire cottage industry of event log monitoring and analysis utilities - all which attempt to overcome the shortcomings of the immature alert technology built-in to Windows NT and the ability to aggregate and analyze multiple event logs. Even though some of the commercial tools are neat, most are expensive and do not integrate with each other or with other operating system?
By Cory L. Scott, 07/30/2004
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Global war on local Administrator Securing local administrator account
By Sergey V. Gordeychik, 07/22/2004
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Implementing the "Just-enough Privilege" Security Model This paper depicts experiences with migrating from a Windows NT environment, but the strategies discussed to implement JeP can be applied to an existing Windows 2000 environment which doesn’t enforce the JeP philosophy.
By Tom Martzahn, 07/08/2004
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NTFS Security Considerations The New Technology File System was introduced with Windows NT to address security problem. With NTFS, files, directories and windows can each have their own security. This allows a great deal of flexibility in setting up a network. Microsoft recommends that all network shares be established using the NTFS file system. This paper has its origins in two events - a spate of papers that compare FAT and NTFS and a personal attempt to describe the security points of NTFS.
Mohammad Heidari,
07/08/2004
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Securing Windows 2000 for Use as an Internet Server Windows 2000 Server is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s premier Network Operating System (NOS). Many advances in technology are built into this new version, not the least of which is the integration of Internet Information Services into the core of the Operating System (OS). Earlier versions of Windows NT have a somewhat functional version of IIS loaded on the CD with the software, but the version included with Windows 2000 is tightly integrated with the OS in an effort to posture Windows 2000 as a competitor in the Internet Server market.
By David S. Courington, 05/17/2004
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Securing Windows 2000 This document will explain how to manage hotfixes on a Windows 2000 server running IIS 5 on the Internet. There will be five sections to this document: Importance, Assumptions, Hotfix practices, Tools, Installing Hotfixes, and Resources.
By Scott Hoppe, 05/17/2004
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