A Novel Software Tool for Analysing NT&\#174; File System Permissions
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), (2013)Abstract
Administrating and monitoring New Technology
File System (NTFS) permissions can be a cumbersome and
convoluted task. In today’s data rich world there has never
been a more important time to ensure that data is secured
against unwanted access. This paper identifies the essential and
fundamental requirements of access control, highlighting the
main causes of their misconfiguration within the NTFS. In
response, a number of features are identified and an efficient,
informative and intuitive software-based solution is proposed for
examining file system permissions. In the first year that the
software has been made freely available it has been downloaded
and installed by over four thousand users1.