Microsoft Windows security technology

antivirus app, component of Windows Vista and later

BitLocker is a full volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with Windows Vista. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes. By default, it uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) or "xor–encrypt–xor (XEX)-based tweaked codebook mode with ciphertext stealing" (XTS) mode with a 128-bit or 256-bit key. CBC is not used over the whole disk; it is applied to each individual sector.

firewall software for Windows

limits rights used by applications on Microsoft Windows

technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group

component of Windows in charge of monitoring and displaying alerts about various security- and performance-related metrics

In a Windows network, NT (New Technology) LAN Manager (NTLM) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols intended to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. NTLM is the successor to the authentication protocol in Microsoft LAN Manager (LANMAN), an older Microsoft product. The NTLM protocol suite is implemented in a Security Support Provider, which combines the LAN Manager authentication protocol, NTLMv1, NTLMv2 and NTLM2 Session protocols in a single package. Whether these protocols are used or can be used on a system, which is governed by Group Policy settings, for whi

ID number used for user accounts and groups in Microsoft Windows

windows database that stores users' passwords

software architecture

Mimikatz is both an exploit on Microsoft Windows that extracts passwords stored in memory and software that performs that exploit. It was created by French programmer Benjamin Delpy and is French slang for "cute cats".

the centre of the Windows NT security subsystem

MS-CHAP is the Microsoft version of the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol, (CHAP).

discontinued Microsoft networking operating system

core security feature introduced in Windows Vista and implemented in subsequent desktop line of Windows operating systems

thumbnail|Screenshot of the Syskey utility on the Windows 8.1 operating system requesting the user to enter a password

encryption technology

data that contains the security credentials for a login session and identifies the user, the user’s groups, the user’s privileges, or a particular application

Windows application programming interface

application programming interface

Microsoft Windows anti-malware system

computer security technology

term

technology

Windows API for cryptography

security feature of Microsoft Windows

_NSAKEY was a variable name discovered in Windows NT 4 SP5 in 1999 by Andrew D. Fernandes of Cryptonym Corporation. The variable contained a 1024-bit public key; public keys are used in public-key cryptography for encryption and digital signature verification (but not decryption or signing). Because of the name, however, it was speculated that the key would allow the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to subvert any Windows user's security. Microsoft denied the speculation and said that the key's name came from the fact that NSA was the technical review authority for U.S. cryptograph

Killbit is a security feature in web browsers based on Microsoft's Trident engine (such as Internet Explorer) and other ActiveX containers that respect the killbit (such as Microsoft Office). A killbit instructs an ActiveX control container never to use a specific piece of ActiveX software, whether third-party or Microsoft, as identified by its class identifier (CLSID).

component of Windows Server that provides centralized user authentication, authorization and accounting

process of disabling secure booting to allow installation of custom firmware on a device

computer security evaluation tool

Microsoft server software for information rights management