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Michael Howard

Michael Howard is a program manager on Microsoft’s Windows 2000 security team. He is the author of Designing Secure Web-Based Application for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft Press).
Email: mikehow@microsoft.com

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Manipulating Services with Script

By Michael Howard, 08/31/2001

On Windows 2000 and Windows NT servers, removing unnecessary services increases security. With NT 4.0 servers or Win2K servers that don’t use Active Directory (AD), scripts can do ...

Setting Appropriate DACLs

By Michael Howard, 07/30/2001

Discover best practices for determining secure ACLs for your resources.

Setting DACLs the Easy Way

By Michael Howard, 07/30/2001

Michael Howard shows you how to set discretionary ACLs on your systems.

Programmatic Security

By Michael Howard, 07/02/2001

Learn how to use scripts to automate the task of querying many computers' event logs.

Honeypots and Resource-Integrity Tools

By Michael Howard, 03/06/2001

Learn how to track system intruders with honeypots and resource-integrity tools. Honeypots can lure attackers so that you can study their methods of operation, and ...

Defense In-depth

By Michael Howard, 01/23/2001

The IP Security (IPSec) protocol can help you defend your system from attack. Learn how to use IPSec to secure your environment.



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