From the course: IT Security Foundations: Operating System Security
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Dissecting the NTFS
From the course: IT Security Foundations: Operating System Security
Dissecting the NTFS
- [Presenter] The file system itself can provide an additional level of security. All Windows operating systems use the New Technology File System, or NTFS. Prior to that, the File Allocation Table, or FAT, was used. FAT is as simple Windows file system and is the table that exists at the very top of the volume. FAT has serious limitations in providing security. It only supports read-only, hidden, system and archive file attributes, and not the wide variety of permissions that are available in NTFS. However, FAT is still supported. NTFS is what is used in today's Windows operating systems. NTFS has advanced ability to secure the file system by granting or denying various permissions. This allows control over which users and groups can gain access to the files and folders stored on the NTFS volume. With NTFS, user-defined attributes can be added to a file. And for accountability, NTFS adds a timestamp indicating when the…
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