A Survival Guide for Windows NT

(No Ratings Yet)

Loading ...

Posted by Jim on Oct 9, 2008 12 views

I had the pleasure of working on a great security guide a few years ago. I still have a hardcopy of the book, including signatures of many of the contributors when we meet at the SANS Security conference after publication. And when you search for this guide on the web, you find that many organizations had copies or excerpts of it on their websites, and it was cited in many discussion forum posts. These guides, collectively published, with facts, tips and best practices that make not just IT sense, but clear business common sense, are worth publishing.

Of course, I would be writing A Survival Guide for Windows 7 and A Survival Guide for Windows Server 2008 today - but I do that with my customers, my peers, and on this blog. And the level of tips and tricks today is much deeper in many areas. The complexity to manage an environment has gotten deeper to manage. Technology does so many things automatically. And yet people still want to uninstall and turn off everything for several reasons - performance, security, lack of understanding and if I don’t understand it better to have it turned off. It requires some level of a leap of faith by IT professionals to just trust the out of the box settings.

A S U R V I V A L G U I D E F O R W I N D O W S N T …

… M&I Data Services James R. Skamarakas, US Army STRICOM Jim Esten, WebDynamic
Gary Ragan and the Answer Desk, Collective Technologies Edmo Lopes Filho, …
http://www.physics.umass.edu/eshop/win_nt/ntsbs215.pdf - View old version on the Internet Archive