Operating System Services
To ensure that only necessary, secure services are active in the operating system environment:
1. From the control panel, click on the services option and review all active or dormant services. Identify the purpose and necessity of each. Unnecessary services should be disabled.
2. Ensure that each service, logs on as on account other than the system account unless the service requires the system account. Audit the permissions granted to each service account.
3. Determine that each service account has the advanced user right, called log on as a service .