Windows Vista Security For Dummies

- Introduction

Part I: Vista Security Essentials
Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed on Vista Security
Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Security Plan
Chapter 3: Dispensing Security from Windows Security Center

Part II: Controlling Access to Systems and Data
Chapter 4: Administering User Account Control
Chapter 5: Protecting Your Data with Rights Management Service
Chapter 6: Managing Accounts, Groups, and Shares
Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques for Managing Access

Part III:Preserving and Protecting Data
Chapter 8: Backing Up So You Can Always Restore
Chapter 9: Planning and Implementing Encrypting File System
Chapter 10: Avoiding Data Theft with BitLocker

Part IV: Guarding against Threats to Network Security
Chapter 11: Configuring Your Firewall
Chapter 12: Locking Down Wireless
Chapter 13: Implementing IE7 Security Features to Limit Your Exposur
Chapter 14: Avoiding Invasion (By Malware, Spyware, Viruses, and the Other Usual Suspects)

Part V: Establishing Advanced Security Practices
Chapter 15: Restricting the Use of Removable Media (And More)
Chapter 16: Working with Vista Security Policies

Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 17: Nine Security Risks and How to Thwart Them
Chapter 18: Ten Additional Security Tools and Resources You Shouldn't Compute Without

- Appendix A: Glossary of Vista and Security Terms
- Appendix B: Getting to Know Vista Versions (And Related Security Features)
- Index

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