This white paper will focus on the importance of securing your Windows network’s DNS service and the features, functionality and security of the DNS server by using design. Several deployment methods for DNS in a Windows 2000 environment will be covered and defined. This document is intended to provide clarification when enabling the operational requirements of the organizations designing secure DNS.
Are you planning on putting together an ISA/VPN sever combo in the near future? If so, you might want to look at the advantages of using DHCP to assign IP addressing information to your VPN clients. Details within!
One of the most pertinent strategies you can implement is one of minimizing the number and of course the severity of Security incidents. One of the biggest issues that I see when looking at security infrastructure is the fact that there is not a great deal of effort put into the possibility that there may even be a problem. In fact, most times when I come to an organization, security is not even something anyone really gave a lot of thought to. Because of this, many security problems linger in the darkness of the networks in questions.
This white paper serves as a reference and knowledge repository on Honeynets and their function within modern interconnected organizations. Honeynets are used as a counter intrusion strategy when learning about intruder’s trends and tactics. Honeynets give you the ability to identify the tools and attack strategies that intruders use against you. Significant information like the information provided by honeynets proves to be vital and should be studied and incorporated into your counter intruder strategy.
In this article, we will look at Windows based Security tools, and in this article, we will look at how to easily crash a Windows server in about 5 seconds. What is SMBDie? SMBDie is a tool (proof of concept) that was created to exploit a problem with the Windows operating system and when activated, will crash and Blue Screen the server immediately.
In general, attacks on wireless networks fall into four basic categories: passive attacks, active attacks, man-in-the middle attacks, and jamming attacks. Let's review what these attacks mean on a wireless network.
With her first article for WindowSecurity.com, we are pleased to welcome Debra Littlejohn Shinder to our team of authors. Network security has many facets, and much emphasis is placed (rightly) on keeping intruders and attackers out of the network via firewalls. However, in today’s business environment, there are also many instances in which sensitive data needs to be protected within the local network from users who have legitimate access to the network – but do not need to have access to the data in question. The answer in that case is encryption.
Incident Response is when a problem occurs, it is identified and then you need to respond to it. Responding to such an incident would be deemed “Incident Response” and you need to know the underlying concepts to Incident Response for be able to run your network efficiently. In this article, we will look at all the underpinnings of Incident Response, Chain of Custody and how to deal with a problem that occurs on a Microsoft based network.
A denial of service (DoS) attack is an incident in which a user or organization is deprived of the services of a resource they would normally expect to have. Typically, the loss of service is the inability of a particular network service, such as e-mail, to be available or the temporary loss of all network connectivity and services. In this article we will look at a DoS and a DDoS which is a “Distributed Denial of Service” attack where the attack comes from multiple hosts, not just one host, to maximize the resulting devastation.
In this article I will focus on how important restoring the active directory is compared to running it securely. Having an un-restorable backup is disastrous especially if your AD has been corrupted by an attacker or a new AD targeting virus. There is no point in backing up and having thousands of dollars invested in a backup strategy if you can not restore.
