Remote registry access
From: Leon North (leon_nc_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 05/26/04
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To: security-basics@securityfocus.com Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:20:56 +0000
Apologies if this has been asked before, but if so doesn't seem to be recent so might be of interest to others also.
I have a personal preference question on allowing remote registry access. Basically in Win2k up you can prevent not only anonymous registry access but in fact any remote registry access- seemingly a good idea as part of system lockdown procedures. However the draw-back of this approach is it will break many vulnerability/patch management scanners which rely on the ability to do this, and at a minimum means the results returned are unreliable or missing vital information.
Bearing this in mind, I am interested to know which way the community in general has decided to go with this dilemma- block remote registry access for higher system security or allow for improved security management?
Leon
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