PricewaterhouseCoopers Security Specialists Write Definitive Windows NT 4.0 Security, Audit and Control Reference Guide for Microsoft Press

Business Wire, March 12, 1999

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1999--

Newly published NTsecurity reference guide continues

publishing relationship between Microsoft Press and

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Technology Risk Services practice.

As network security becomes more of an issue for corporations, Microsoft Press has issued a comprehensive manual on the subject, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Security, Audit and Control, written by a team of PricewaterhouseCoopers risk management specialists. The book provides readers with definitive guidelines for monitoring and controlling Windows NT Server 4.0 network security, and for ensuring the integrity of the NT system security across the enterprise. Part of the Microsoft Technical Reference series, this book addresses corporate IT security control objectives in the context of real business objectives.

Included in the manual is a comprehensive NT audit plan, based on PricewaterhouseCooper's industry-best model. As noted in one early review of the manual in Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine (March 1999), the "[PricewaterhouseCoopers Windows NT Security Audit Program] alone is worth the price of the book."

"We're excited about working with PriceWaterhouseCoopers on this new book," says James Mastan, associate publisher, IS/IT Products, Microsoft Press. "Their expertise with Windows NT meets a need for the IT professional seeking greater detail on NT security, and is the perfect complement to our other titles on Windows NT, such as Notes from the Field - Managing a Windows NT Network."

Bruce Murphy, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner in Technology Risk Services, notes "With the publication of the new 4.0 guide, which fully updates the 3.51 version published in 1996, we can now say that we have literally written the book twice on NT security. These guides are written to be helpful tools, and illustrate the high caliber of security and risk management that PricewaterhouseCoopers brings to clients worldwide, " he added.

The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Security, Audit and Control technical reference guide is available through Microsoft Press online at http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/1548.htm, and can also be purchased through other popular online book sites. The authors of the book include PricewaterhouseCoopers TRS senior managers James Jumes and Neil Cooper, along with TRS senior consultants Paula Chamoun and Todd Feinman.

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