Windows Vista security: First impressions

✍ Scribed by I. Phillips

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1363-4127
• DOI: 10.1016/j.istr.2006.10.002

✦ Synopsis

This article looks at Microsoft's latest operating system, based upon a pre-release RC1, to provide an overview to Windows Vista, its new security features and provide early indications on how Vista lives up to its design aims from a security perspective. In-depth discussions of potential vulnerabilities within Vista have been omitted from this article for brevities sake, but links to further reading are provided at the end to a number of documents on this area.