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  • The following accounts enable a least-privilege implementation of SharePoint in a typical environment:

    Site Home karsz 2011

  • If you do not specify any fields in the Alert Suppression dialog, then you may receive numerous alerts within a short period of time for example, when SharePoint Server 2010 floods the Application event log due to an issue with least-privilege configuration.

    Site Home Jeremy Jameson - MSFT 2011

  • Switches should subscribe to the concept of least-privilege like everything else in security.

    TechRepublic Blogs George Ou 2009

  • Server 2008 and Vista include several least-privilege mechanisms that guarantee that a service gets only the privileges it needs to do its job-nothing less and nothing more.

    WinInfo 2009

  • Switches should subscribe to the concept of least-privilege like everything else in security.

    ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News 2009

  • Here's how the least-privilege mechanism for services works.

    WinInfo 2009

  • You can think of this mechanism as a User Account Control (UAC) - like least-privilege solution for services.

    WinInfo 2009

  • And even if you ran no anti-virus at all, least-privilege, updated software versions and a few other little things like a good firewall would block most of the ill effects of Conficker and most other malware and prevent them from becoming permanent on the system.

    eWeek - RSS Feeds 2009

  • In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Microsoft uses Session 0 isolation, new least-privilege restrictions for services, service-specific security identifiers (SIDs), write-restricted SIDs, and restricted network access to reduce the attack surface of services.

    WinInfo 2009

  • (A Server 2008 and Vista least-privilege feature, UAC ensures that, by default, user applications execute with few privileges and that all users-including administrators-have only basic user-level privileges.

    WinInfo 2009

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