Windows 8 In Depth

Encrypting a Disk with BitLocker

Take Windows 8 security technologies such as the bidirectional Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and Windows Service Hardening; throw in good patch-management policies (that is, applying security patches as soon as they’re available); and add a dash of common sense. If you do so, your computer should never be compromised by malware while Windows 8 is running.

Windows Service Hardening

Windows Service Hardening is an under-the-hood Windows 8 security feature designed to limit the damage that a compromised service can wreak upon a system by implementing the following security techniques:

• All services run in a lower privilege level.

• All services have been stripped of permissions that they don’t require.