SEARCHWIN2000.COM | Tips from our experts Dec. 6, 2002 Expert answers and advice to your Windows 2000 technical questions. More expert advice: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateExperts/0,289622,sid1,00.html ____________________________________________________________________
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Featured Topic: The goods on group policies - Tip of the Week: Security begins with strong password policy - Webcast: Reducing vulnerability in wireless communications - Tip Contest: Win a MOJO CD-MP3 player ___________________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: SearchWin2000.com Survey HELP US IMPROVE OUR SITE! Complete our survey and tell us what Windows 2000 information you value most right now, so that we can ensure that SearchWin2000.com remains a vital tool for you in the coming weeks and months. The survey takes just a few minutes. Thanks in advance for your participation. Click here to take the survey: http://www.insightexpress.com/s/kle49623.asp ____________________________________________________________________ ROBERTA BRAGG, SECURITY | Featured Expert of the Month This special edition of "Tips from our experts" spotlights our SearchWin2000.com security expert, Roberta Bragg. At our Expert of the Month page, you can read some of Roberta's best responses to member security questions, her tips and articles, as well as access a boatload of her on-demand webcasts. To check out Roberta's wealth of knowledge, visit the Expert of the Month homepage: http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/content/0,290959,sid1_gci866736,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW DO I KEEP MY ASP WEB SERVER SECURE? | Ask Roberta Bragg Dear Roberta: Our ASP Web server got hacked. It was running NT 4.0. We have rebuilt it and are about to release it back onto the DMZ (demilitarized zone). We have applied all MS patches and also used the IIS lockdown tool. Any suggestions on keeping it secure and prevent it from getting hacked and tagged again? >>Click here to read Bragg's expert response: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid497914_tax285120,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SETTING UP A FIREWALL FOR AN ADSL ROUTER | Ask Roberta Bragg Dear Roberta: I have set up a small wireless network of Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 workstations with a single Windows 2000 server. The routing is done via my ADSL router, which has a built-in firewall. Could you please provide some information regarding the setup of the firewall for protecting my internal network? >>Click here to read Bragg's expert response: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid501479_tax285120,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SELECTIVE BROADBAND DISTRIBUTION ACROSS A LAN | Ask Roberta Bragg Dear Roberta: We have broadband Internet access for only our 10-member IT group. We want to keep this totally separate from our LAN, which 100 employees use, for security reasons but at the same time use our LAN to distribute broadband to the IT staff. We were thinking of having a separate subnet, a dedicated PC for the broadband with a hub, which would distribute to the IT staff, who will have two NICs in their PCs. Is this secure enough? >>Click here to read Bragg's expert response: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid501474_tax285120,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PORT BEING ACCESSED BY OTHER PCS! | Ask Roberta Bragg Dear Roberta: I recently installed a Motorola SURFboard cable modem on my PC with Windows 2000 Professional on it. I also have ZoneAlarm 3.0 as a firewall. I've recently noticed in my logs that port 1214 is being accessed by other PCs! I don't download music and recently found out that some service named Kazaa uses this port. I've blocked the port in advanced TCP/IP filtering by allowing only the bare essentials to operate. My problem is that when I run Norton Antivirus then PestPatrol, I find nothing amiss. Can you offer some suggestions? >>Click here to read Bragg's expert response: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid504685_tax285120,00.html _____________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT FEATURES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE GOODS ON GROUP POLICIES | Featured Topic We've got the goods on some of the most powerful features of Active Directory and Win2k -- group policies. This collection of tips shows all the different ways you can use them to manage users, automate processes and secure your systems. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid1_gci864693,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SECURITY BEGINS WITH A STRONG PASSWORD POLICY | Tip of the Week Passwords are a computer's first line of defense. Read this tip to find out how to strengthen your company's password policy and why such a policy matters. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci862086,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= REDUCING VULNERABILITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Webcast Christopher Dell, a member of the Blackberry product management team, will teach you what unique security vulnerabilities mobile workers present (beyond remote access) and what you can do to address these issues. http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/webcastsTranscriptSecurity/1,289693,sid33_gci852262,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WIN A MOJO CD-MP3 PLAYER! | Tip Contest Well the weather outside is frightful, but the contest prize is so delightful. 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