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Chapter 4. Security
WMI‐basedadministrationscriptsoperatingoveraremoteconnectionsend
dataoverthenetworkincleartextbydefault.Youcanenhancesecurityby
modifying WMI‐based administration scripts to establish an encrypted
remoteconnectionasfollows:
1.Setanimpersonationlevelof″impersonate″
2.Setanauthenticationlevelof″pktPrivacy
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See Appendix A, “Sample Visual Basic scripts for configuring BIOS
settings,” on page 11 for sample scripts used to implement WMI‐based
administrationscriptsthatincludetheseparametersforencryption.