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options, such as Domain, Public, and Private Profiles for yet even more
tenacious security than its predecessor. Such tenacity allows you, for
example, to provide certain settings to your office connection yet quite
different settings to your home connection.
For more on Windows Firewall, see Chapter 11.
Knowing What to Secure
So you have available to you one of the most secure Windows operating sys-
tems offered by Microsoft to date. Now what? Although Vista has many secu-
rity enhancements beyond earlier Windows OSes, it can’t read your mind and
magically protect those things that are so very important to you. Before you
can implement the Vista security features that make sense for you, you must
first understand what it is that you need or want to protect.
Hardware and software
When you think about what it is that you want to protect, it isn’t necessarily
intuitive that you might consider hardware and software — especially when
thinking about it under the context of selecting security features in an OS. Even
Figure 1-6:
The
Windows
Firewall
interface.
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