Re: Security Issues with NT4 being no longer supported.
From: Anthony Yates (anthonyDINGyates_at_airDONGdesk.com)
Date: 11/26/04
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:07:58 -0000
Here's an un-technical response:
If your NT4 server is exposed to clients on your network, then it is exposed
to any security attack from the clients. You might get away with it if the
server provides a specific function on restricted ports (lets say POP for
example), and you have an internal firewall to block everything else, ie a
DMZ.
Anthony
"Jordan" <jordanmcclements@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e8096ce.0411260229.27ae5d2@posting.google.com...
> We have a fairly low tech (NT4 SP6a) setup.
>
> NO services are are exposed to any public NICs.
>
> Remote users can access the office netowrk over a VPN - but this is
> done through a separate hardware firewall.
>
> NT4 does exactly what we need it to do, and I am loathe to spend
> thousands of pounds and weeks of work upgrading to Windows Server
> 2003.
>
> I know that you can never be too careful etc. But realistically, do I
> NEED to upgrade NT4 in order to be secure?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
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