A new version of NTFS Security Management Suite v2.5 has been released recently to copy permissions from one shared folder to many shared folder(s). The new feature named as “Copy Permissions – Advanced”, allows a baseline security template to be applied to other folders that carry the same or similar structure to that of the […]

What is NTFS Permissions? NTFS permissions play a vital role in securing Operating system objects (Folders, Files, and Services etc). NTFS permissions works on the basis of what is called an Access Control Model which contains the following: • Access token • Security Descriptors Access token: Contains information about the logged on user and their […]

Vyapin’s NTFS Security Management Suite has been improved further with changes and addition of new features to cater to the ever changing NTFS permissions reporting and management needs of system administrators. NTFS Security Auditor Shares Folders and Files Report The Standard Reports from the previous version has been replaced with Shares, Folders and Files Report. […]

“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and its money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information…” – Kevin Mitnick, Computer Security Consultant, Author, Hacker A security professional […]

A new version of NTFS Security Auditor 3.0 has been released recently with features to report on effective Dynamic Access Control (DAC) permissions in Windows Server 2012 and Security Viewer feature. The new version provides different types of Effective DAC reports and presents NTFS permissions of entire local file system folders and network shared folders […]

Centralized SQL database Configure the database settings with the NTFS Configuration wizard to create a new database called ‘NTFS Security Auditor’ for storing each installation of NTFS Security Auditor in separate tables. The table names are prefixed with the computer name that is running the application. Thus, each installation of NTFS Security Auditor will deploy […]

Scan Profiles (Shares) – Scan a subset of Shares in computers for recursive scanning and reporting Figure #1: Scan Profile Manager – Shares Existing shares are listed with provisions to create a new scan profile (or) modify / delete / view the existing profiles. Figure #2: A sample Scan Profile for Shares You can create […]

We have released a new security audit solution called NTFS Security Auditor to manage NTFS permissions / security in the Windows network. Vyapin’s NTFS Security Auditor audits the NTFS security across your Windows network. It gives a complete inventory report of all the users and their permissions to the Files/Folders/Shares. You can track unauthorized access […]

NTFS Permissions reports on Files, Folders and Shares using Admin Report Kit for Windows Enterprise. There are several powerful features available in Admin Report Kit for Windows Enterprise to generate reports on NTFS permissions on files and folders residing in servers and workstations across multiple domains in the network. All reports may be scheduled and […]

One of the headaches in finding out the NTFS permissions on files and folders is determining the effective permissions. Files and folders may have permissions explicitly set on them for users and groups and also have implicit/inherited permissions (e.g. users having access or deny to a folder by virtue of  their membership in a group or a nested […]