Description
Access controls in Microsoft Windows can be implemented to ensure authorized users and unauthorized users have the correct privileges (Soloman, 2014). The following forms of identification are used in a Microsoft Windows environment:
- Security Identifier (SIDs)
- Globally Unique Identifier (GUIDs)
- Class Identifier (CLSIDs)
Select 1 identification control and discuss the operation of that control. Use outside sources and references to support your statements.
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SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
Security identifiers are mainly variables used to identify trustees. The same is believed to
be used in accounts, where each account contains a unique SID, issued by an authority. The
authority best used is the windows domain controller, and is later stored in a security database.
Security identifiers are known to operate by allowing anonymous access, by DACLs and ACEs,
and finally through interaction between threads and other securable objects.
Under interaction between threads, the security identifiers operate when a thread tries to
access a securable object, with it having two options from the system. The first option...
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