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Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP

This 100-level technical white paper provides information on the principle of least privilege and describes how to apply it to user accounts on Windows XP. The paper covers the following topics:

• Risks associated with administrative privileges
  
• Definition of the principle of least privilege
  
• Definition of the least-privileged user account (LUA) approach
  
• Benefits of the LUA approach
  
• Risk, security, usability, and cost tradeoffs
  
• Implementing the LUA approach
  
• Future developments

This paper also describes at a high-level the issues that affect implementation of the LUA approach and provides useful links to other online resources that explain these concepts in more detail.

Download the Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP Whitepaper

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