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by xyzxyz1

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Q: Does the process of turning-on ICS (under WIN2000) provide Blanket-port NAT coverage to the entire PC (incl. NIC), or does it just cover modem Dial-up, as I suspect?

WE advocate the Presidents new Security guidelines, as outlined by CIS, whichnow stresses "multi-tiered" security, not just SERVER-Level Security. This being the case, we've turned-on ICS at every Workstation AND Server(s).
NOW: This is NOT the SOLE protection running, mind you, but simply intended as yet "another" level of protection to get thru. Fallacy in our Approach? Is the ICS doing us any good? Advice?

THANKS!

GUY!

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by curlergirl

I fail to see how running ICS on every workstation on your network would do anything for security. NAT only provides security between private and public IP traffic by acting as a gateway between the two, filtering the IP packets and masking the IP addresses and ports of your internal clients from the public network. If you have no other firewall in place, then you would want to run ICS on a server that would provide Internet connectivity to all of the workstations on your network. However, for a business network, ICS is not a very robust firewall. You indicated in your question that you have some other type of firewall in place, so in my opinion ICS is of absolutely no use to you at all in this situation. Hope this helps!

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