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Subject: RE: NT Security
From: "Forno, Richard" <Richard . Forno @ mail . house . gov>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:31:03 -0400
To: "'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>, "'Bruce M.'" <bkmarsh @ feist . com>

...not to mention disabling a floppy boot... <g>

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>----------
>From: 	Bruce M.[SMTP:bkmarsh @
 feist .
 com]
>Sent: 	Monday, September 30, 1996 2:33 PM
>To: 	firewalls @
 greatcircle .
 com
>Subject: 	Re: NT Security
>
>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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