Windows Security Archive
17 Jan 2012
Manage Passwords for New Users Accounts in Windows 8
Passwords Options for New User Accounts When administrators of Windows 8 computer create a new user account using Computer Management snap-in, operating system provides them with several features which can be used to make the new user account secure and more user-friendly. In most production environments this process is used to create several user accounts
16 Jan 2012
Manage Permission Inheritance in Windows 8
What Is Inheritance? In computer security inheritance means all the NTFS permissions that administrators set on any parent object automatically become applicable on the child objects as well. For example if there is a folder named ABC and in ABC folder there is another subfolder named XYZ, then NTFS permissions that administrators set on ABC
10 Jan 2012
Locking Out Accounts in Windows 8
What is Account Lockout? When users try to provide their credentials on Windows 8 or any other operating system and fail to logon because of mistyping or ignorance, after several attempts the user account on which multiple attempts were made gets locked out for a specific duration. This process is knows as Account Lockout. This