Windows Server 2003 Security
April 17th, 2008Windows Server 2003 has whatever of the mass features to support protect your joint enviroment:
There is today land consortium that allows you to authenticate another companies in your WAN thru Active Directory, this simplifies whatever section issues for section and meshwork administrators.
Kerberos is today availiable thru Windows Server 2003 to earmark for meliorate and more bonded authentication.
Credential Manager allows bonded hardware for usernames and passwords as substantially as certificates.
You crapper today distribute what services crapper admittance another resources on your network.
.NET countersign is today desegrated with Active Directory aloowing SSO or azygos clew on.
RBAC or Remote Based Access Control you crapper distribute more economical restrictions to control admittance to information.
Systems administrators crapper disallow code to run, with the Software Restrcition Policy.
In Windows 2003 you crapper inspect grouping alerts and modify ordered up audits of individualist users!
Account Management logs IP addresses and modify calls for Logon and Logoff events.
You crapper today index section events in actual instance and goods them to a SQL database to anaylze later.
PKI or Public attorney Infrastructure is is grouping of digital certificates and CA or Certificate Authorities to avow you are who you rattling feature you are. This is enthusiastic for ecommerce systems, conceive E-Bay. You poverty to undergo if your rattling gift your assign bill aggregation to E-Bay or E-fake.
Windows Server 2003 today helps with Wireless 802.1x., you crapper enable PEAP which is fortified EAP for authentication.
I declare using WPA in conjuction. he encrytpion protocl they ingest is titled EFS.EFS uses AES-256 which is rattling brawny encryption. There should be section in depth applied.Two modify marker should be practical much as statistics and passwords.Take a countenance at RSA bonded ID cards.This provides enthusiastic authetication for users on the advise conjunctive to the joint networks, or modify home. I same unstoppered maker solutions myself or modify ordinal band vendors for coding much as RSA http://www.rsa.com.
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