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Re: security advice


From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:23:16 -0500

What resources (servers, kind of network,...) and what do you want to
"secure"?  What services HAVE to work?  Do you have a backup or business
continuity plan?

Jim


coder wrote:

Hi I just need a bit of advice,

I have recently been appointed network administrator at a charity.
The network consists of a windows server 2003 central server
and about 10 windows XP clients.

can anyone give me some tips to secure the network?

so far I have:

installed patches and updates
changed passwords to "strong passwords"
installed AV software on all clients & server

I am also planning on setting up the NAT thing in the server and installing
a proxy then disabling all
ports except the proxys (is this a good idea?)

I appricate any help
thanks

~Davie

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