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Securing Your Files

Disk drives and devices with removable storage are formatted with a filesystem. The filesystem allows you to create and manage files. The format of the disk that you are working with determines the file security options that are available. You can format disks by using either File Allocation Table (FAT) or NT File System (NTFS). As discussed in the following sections, FAT and NTFS are a bit different in the way they work.

In this tutorial:

  1. FAT Versus NTFS
  2. File Attributes
  3. NTFS Permissions
  4. Controlling Access to Your Data
  5. Viewing and modifying existing basic permissions
  6. Special Permissions
  7. Adding new special permissions
  8. Ownership Permissions
  9. Inherited Permissions
  10. Effective Permissions