Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online

Lockdown Steps

You can take many steps to further increase the security of the operating system. In a home environment, implementing more security features will have less of an impact than might be possible in an office networked environment. In an office, many computers need to communicate with each other, and too many internal restrictions can lead to administrative problems. Many of the security measures can also be applied in the NT environment:

• Rename the Administrator account— For a sophisticated attacker, a renamed Administrator account does pose a serious obstacle. However, as we have mentioned, many attackers are unskilled, or they are just script kiddies who use publicly available tools for attacks and don't really understand the underlying ...