Security
| Component | Description | Introduced |
|---|---|---|
| AppLocker | AppLocker uses rules and the properties of the files to provide access control for applications. | Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| BitLocker Drive Encryption | A full disk encryption, designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes. | Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions, Windows Server 2008 |
| Data Execution Prevention | A security feature that is intended to prevent an application or service from executing code from a non-executable memory region. | Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
| Encrypting File System | A file system driver that provides filesystem-level encryption. | Windows 2000 |
| Security Account Manager | A database stored as a registry file. | Windows NT 3.1 |
| SYSKEY | A utility that encrypts the hashed password information in a SAM database using a 128-bit encryption key. | Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 |
| User Account Control | A technology and security infrastructure utility that aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase. | Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 |
| Windows Firewall (wf.msc) |
A utility designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications. An earlier edition known as Internet Connection Firewall that was disabled by default was included with the original Windows XP release. |
Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
| Windows Defender | A security utility to prevent, remove and quarantine spyware in Microsoft Windows. This utility is superseded by Microsoft Security Essentials, available as a free download. |
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 |
| Windows Resource Protection | A feature that protects registry keys and folders in addition to critical system files. | Windows Vista |
Read more about this topic: List Of Microsoft Windows Components
Famous quotes containing the word security:
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small protection for liberty.... Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)