How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network

Download or read book How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network written by Chris Peiris and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows 2003 Server is unquestionably the dominant enterprise level operating system in the industry, with 95% of all companies running it. And for the last tow years, over 50% of all product upgrades have been security related. Securing Windows Server, according to bill gates, is the company's #1 priority.While considering the security needs of your organiztion, you need to balance the human and the technical in order to create the best security design for your organization. Securing a Windows Server 2003 enterprise network is hardly a small undertaking, but it becomes quite manageable if you approach it in an organized and systematic way. This includes configuring software, services, and protocols to meet an organization's security needs.* The Perfect Guide if "System Administrator is NOT your primary job function * Avoid "time drains" configuring the many different security standards built into Windows 2003 * Secure VPN and Extranet Communications