Network Security issues

Well for starters there are litterally dozens of books on the subject. I suggest you start with a search of your local bookstore or Amazon.com. Some of the things you may want to make a note of are Firewalls and RAS these are the 2 most common entry points. You'll also want to learn about Anti-Virus software, trojan horses how they work, what ports they use, etc. A good place to go for information on security is the CERT at ... www.cert.org. Their whole purpose in life is to keep track of security issues. Get on their mailing lists to stay up to date on what's going on. Just keep in mind that you want to secure a network from the inside just as much as from the outside, so you'll want to know about segmenting your network, managed switching, etc.

This is just barely a start. There is no end to this learning proccess once you start because new things come up daily. Good luck to you on it.

-Mike

Hi Robert - I came up the ranks with a top Intelligence Agency. And I stress upon you to view the user/operator as your weakest junction in the computer Security chain. You can read about emination copying, impulse recorders, and password layering. But if the employee/user is not instilled with a sense of loyalty to the company/employer, then you will have very weak security. You can consume all the Tech Security data you wish. But if you have a weak empoyee participation program...you are dead.

I will give you a path that leads to so much good Secuity reading that I would feel like a bandit for taking any points from you. But:

In Explorer, Go to IE, highlight and clear Address block. Type in ? Network Security. Press Enter key. Up jumps oodles of paths.
Repeat: Question Mark, Space, Network Security. Enter key.