Lab Notes

I don't know how old this article is, but it's new to me. The TechNet article "10 Immutable Laws of Security" includes some obvious ones, but they bear repeating.

I'll add an 11th law for Windows users: An unpatched system is an invitation to disaster. It's a corollary to laws 1 and 2: with the frequent occurrence of exploits on Windows systems (and the speed with which they appear — the ever-decreasing amount of time between the publication of a Windows flaw and the appearance of malicious code to exploit that flaw), it is criticial to have automatic updates enabled.

And a 12th law: Don't run any application with privileges it doesn't need. See my earlier post for clarification of why you don't need to surf the web with Administrator access.