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Article #102: Network Security With Respects To Companies

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Network security is an all or nothing applications or services that can't run
approach. Companies today that only think with the heightened security. Your
of adding a firewall will be very financial servers might be running a
supprised when they get hacked. Hacking third-party accounting application that
can occur with the social hacking can't handle encrypted network
approach or phishing. Someone pretending communication, for example. Third, it is
to be an vendor or an employee will get my opinion that many network
bits and pieces of data. administrators and companies have been
In depth security has become a trained to use servers in this state and
requirement for every company. Your any form of heightened security at
network boundaries, firewalls, VPNs, initial installation could render the
mobile computers, desktops, servers, server useless. I have seen more than my
domain controllers, etc., all need to be fair share of network administrators
considered when you are designing for a become confused when some computers
secure environment. It is important to There are no default installed Windows
know what you get out of the box, as well servers that will meet your security
as what options you have at your disposal needs completely. Therefore, you need to
to secure these environments. When you consider the most economical and
consider a new installation of a Windows efficient methods for configuring these
server, 2000 or Server 2003, you might servers. Since security is not a narrow
not be getting the security settings that set of configurations, you need to use
you anticipate. Both of these operating some mechanism that can handle a wide
systems' security will not be configured variety of settings. The security
to meet your expectations or company templates provide a broad, yet deep,
security requirements. capability of configuring security
There are many reasons for the security settings for your servers. With the
of these servers to be set for weaker variety of security configurations that
security. First, with so many other come standard with the security
operating systems that might need to templates, coupled with the ability to
communicate with them, they need to be customize them, you can get the majority
set for the "lowest common denominator" of the security settings accomplished
of security to ensure compatibility. The using only this one solution. Finally, by
security options that come with Windows using any one of three methods to deploy
Server 2003 are not available on your your security templates, GPOs being the
Windows NT 4.0 Workstations, for example. most efficient, you can have your servers
Second, the servers might be running functioning in a secure manner quickly.






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