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Subject: Re: NT Security
From: "Bruce M." <bkmarsh @ feist . com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:33:14 -0500 (CDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <9609251908 . AA21037 @ relay2 . cospo . osis . gov>

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote:

> Much has been made of NT's "C2" certification.  I've heard that it was
> certified without the standard NT file system; and with that file
> system, it can't be certified.  Beware.

    It will only comply with C2 standards if you are using the NTFS file 
system (not FAT or HPFS) and, of course, as a stand-alone machine after
service pack X (7?) is applied with some other holes closed.

                       ________________________________
                      [ Bruce M. - Feist Systems, Inc. ]
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             'DISA information shows that computer attacks on the 
          Department of Defense are successful 65 percent of the time.
        The DoD, despite its problems, probably has one of the strongest
         computer security programs in government.' -GAO/T-AIMD-96-108



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