Windows Vista

[Jeremy Hajek][Illinois Institute of Technology][09/26/07]

- Cutting through the hype to understand the real improvements to Microsoft’s new operating system; Vista.  Starting with historical reasons for past Operating Systems and understanding the current computing environment and the need for Windows Vista.

Windows Vista – Original Title

- More than a pretty face, who knew?

Windows Vista – Actual Title

Brief History of Computers

ENIAC: Considered first Vaccum tube based Computer in the modern sense. Not Von Nuemann required total

reprogramming 2nd Gen: Von Nuemann style

Computer had separate parts, CPU, registers, memory, etc, etc and was reprogrammable

Pictures - ENIAC

Pictures – Von Nuemann

3rd Gen – IBM – APPLE - PC

Altair 8080: 1975 - Not very useful, but considered the first commercially viable PC kit. Not a great system, but introduced us

to some guy named Gates and his company

Apple II: 1977 8086 – 16 bit chip 1978 IBM PC – August 1981

Pictures IBM – APPLE - PC

Short Internet History

ArpaNet: “By 5 December 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET started in 1972 and was growing rapidly, by 1981 the number of hosts had grown to 213, with a new host being added approximately every twenty days.”

1978 – TCP/IP finalized

1983-1986 ArpaNet split into MilNet and public network NSFnet, DecNet, and on.

Classic Windows History June 1985 Windows 1.01 Unsupported August 1986 Windows 1.03 Unsupported December 1987 Windows 2.03 Unsupported June 1988 Windows 2.1 Unsupported May 1990 Windows 3.0 Unsupported April 1992 Windows 3.1 Unsupported January 1994 Windows 3.2 Unsupported October 1992 Windows For Workgroups 3.1 Unsupported August 1993 Windows NT 3.1 Unsupported November 1993 Windows For Workgroups 3.11 Unsupported September 1994 Windows NT 3.5 Unsupported November 1994 Windows NT 3.51 Unsupported[19] August 1995 Windows 95 Unsupported September 1996 Windows NT 4.0 Unsupported June 1998 Windows 98 Unsupported

Current Windows History February 2000 Windows 2000 Extended Support until June 13,

2010[20] July 2000 Windows Me Unsupported October 2001 Windows XP Unsupported for RTM as of September

30, 2004 and for SP1 as of October 10, 2006[21] Current for SP2 March 2003 Windows XP 64-bit Edition (Itanium) Unsupported April 2003 Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP Professional x64

Edition Unsupported for RTM, SP1 and SP1a Current for SP2 January 2007 Windows Vista Current 2010 or later (planned) Windows 7 (Vienna) Work on Vista started 2002 – but scrapped and redone starting in

2003 focusing on new security processes

Buena Vista of Windows Vista

7 New aspects of Vista… New Technologies UAC and the new user accounts File and Registry Virtualization Mandatory Integrity Control Bit Locker – TPM – Password Tech. Code Integrity and Driver signing Layered Defense, IE 7 plus, Defender

& more

New Technologies

New Explorers Side bar and gadgets AERO - Flip feature 3D Windows Experience Index ReadyBoost and Caching System Indexing - SuperFetch Full System Backup

UAC and the new user accounts

What is UAC? More than an “Are you sure

button.” Why shouldn’t I just turn it off? Where is my Administrator

Account? Why the design of XP differs

from Vista and calls for UAC

File and Registry Virtualization

File and Registry Virtualization Difference between XP model

and Vista Model Why some programs won’t run

in Vista, but do in XP? (Hint not Vista’s fault – see the sloppy programmer…)

Mandatory Integrity Control

Mandatory Integrity Control What is it? Where have we seen

it before? Where have you been all my

life? One of the best and most

moden Vista enhancements.

Bit Locker – TPM

Bit Locker – Trusted Platform Module

Need for encryption today Veterans Administration stolen

laptop example

Code Integrity and Driver signing

Code Integrity and Driver signing for kernel

Why the dedication? Where does it occur? Password Hashing, goodbye LM

and NTLM. Mandatory Software DEP <-

where have you been all my life?

Layered Internet Defense

Why the need for layered Defense? IE 7+, Defender, Firewall, Protected Mode, MIC

New threats and new Internet Age. New tools and way of thinking.

ASLR UAC Social Engineering taken into

consideration

Questions & Comments

Bibliography

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet Minasi, Mark. (2007). Administering Windows

Vista Security. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Tulloch, Mitch (2007). Windows Vista Resource Kit Redmond, Wa: Microsoft Press Press.