All posts tagged DISA

Should you remove all rights from disabled accounts?

I recently had a task: Find an industry best practice that says you need to remove all rights or permissions or groups from the account of a former employee, rather than just disabling the account. There was only one problem. I could find no such thing. None. Nothing. In fact, I expect this blog entry [...]

How to secure a computer like a spook

A link to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) guidance on hardening operating systems has been floating around various blogs today. But the NSA’s guidance on configuring Windows 7 and other recent operating systems is, to put it mildly, a bit incomplete. What one government agency doesn’t do, another probably does. That’s usually a safe assumption [...]

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