Last week, Microsoft suffered a double whammy, with Web site blackouts that lasted, on and off, for three days. Microsoft insists that the original problem was a misconfigured router, but they admit that a denial of service attack was responsible for the second and third wave of outages. You don’t have to be as big as Microsoft to be a target — anyone who runs any Windows server software needs to be conscious of security holes.
I’m ready to crack down on my network, but where do I start? How do you test your system to make sure it’s as safe as possible? Can you recommend software, hardware, or services that can identify security issues before they become problems? What kind of procedures do you have in place to make sure that the latest patches are applied to Web servers? If you?ve developed effective security policies for your Windows network, share them with your fellow TechRepublic members and earn up to 2,001 TechPoints. Click here to tackle this week’s Microsoft Challenge.
