Video Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video) 95
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This isn't about your place in society, but about user privileges on your computers and computer networks. The more privileges, the more risk of getting hacked and having Bad People do Bad Things to your company's computers, right? So Leonid Shtilman's company, Viewfinity, offers SaaS that helps you grant system privileges in a more granular manner than just allowing "root" and "user" accounts with nothing in between.
Re:Is he not aware of Windows? (Score:2, Informative)
This is very Linux-centric. There have been much more granular permissions on Windows for probably well over a decade.
Most Windows users for the last decade have run as 'root' since it's the default on XP, and there have been much more granular permissions on Unix for decades through group permissions.
Not to mention technologies like SELinux and Apparmor.
Re:Is he not aware of Windows? (Score:5, Informative)
Not quite. Not even Administrator is root. LocalSystem is root.