Activity and Authentication Analyzer: September 2022

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

AutoPlay Windows Policies

Switched to AutoPlay Policies Windows Policies in the context of Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Default behavior for AutoRun
To block the content of removable disk from auto-running. When a removable disk is inserted, this policy not only locks the "autorun.inf" file, but also locks all the autorun-related virus and other suspicious files.

Activity and Authentication Analyzer

The information, which disclosure can cause the loss, may be valued as classified and can be the subject of the protection measures.

The activity analysis and authentication or how it is called in brief "statistics", as the method of information collection is applied either for the preliminary exploring or when the access to message body (posted message, telephone talk) is impossible or unwanted.

Being applied to the computer security topics the activity analysis and authentication is performed when it is impossible to get documents' copies, which user worked on, for example, stored either on ciphered or dismounted disk containers. Nevertheless, "nothing is disappeared without any trace" and it is possible, therefore, to disclose much useful data from the documents' names, Internet addresses, which were visited, the applications' names which were launched or file names which were searched, last user's logon name.

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

AutoPlay Windows Policies

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