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Greg's Weekly quickTIP: Vista and Windows 2008 Security
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Greg's Weekly quickTip: A Park Bench, An Office, or A House
By Greg Shields
With Vista, every time you connect the OS to a new network
off your
domain, you're prompted with a dialog box asking you to
choose the
type of network. Three options are provided: A park bench, a
little
office building, and a house.
These three icons are used by Vista along with the Windows
Firewall
with Advanced Security to identify the level of firewall
involvement
that should occur with the new network. As is obvious, when
we're
connecting to "park bench" networks -- the most
risky and insecure
ones like coffee shops and airports -- we want the firewall
to turn
up full bore. In those networks we want the greatest level
of
protection against malevolent code injecting itself into our
machine.
But what about the other two icons? With Windows Server 2008
and Vista,
we get three profiles we can use to configure our firewall.
The Domain
profile is used when we're connected to our Windows domain
and the
Public profile is designed for those high-risk networks
discussed
above. But the Private profile has a few oddities in its
design.
Ostensibly created for semi-trusted networks like business
partners
and home networks, the Private profile is designed to give
us a little
more flexibility than when attached to wild-and-wooly Public
networks.
What's odd about Vista's three little icons is that two of
them -- the
office building and the house -- both point to the Private
profile.
There's functionally no difference between clicking one or
the other.
As to the Domain profile, there is no little icon to be
selected for
this network. When a Vista instance determines that it's on
the same
network as a domain controller, this profile is
automatically selected.
The user is never prompted to choose this network.
So, the moral of this week's story is to be cognizant about
the
differences between these little icons -- and to make sure
your users
are, as well. If you're making use of the Private profile,
make sure
your users are selecting their icons appropriately.
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