HARDENING WINDOWS SYSTEMS

George Davida, Jon Peccarelli

2005

Abstract

Microsoft Windows systems have been the favourite target of viruses, worms and spyware in recent years. Through a kernel level process, we can secure Windows™processes by running them in a form of a sandbox. These sandboxes are configured to only allow a subset of rights to be granted to the process, therefore limiting the ability of a rogue process or a compromised process to inflict damage on the rest of the system.

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in Harvard Style

Davida G. and Peccarelli J. (2005). HARDENING WINDOWS SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-32-5, pages 368-371. DOI: 10.5220/0001416703680371


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icete05,
author={George Davida and Jon Peccarelli},
title={HARDENING WINDOWS SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2005},
pages={368-371},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001416703680371},
isbn={972-8865-32-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - HARDENING WINDOWS SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-32-5
AU - Davida G.
AU - Peccarelli J.
PY - 2005
SP - 368
EP - 371
DO - 10.5220/0001416703680371