Re: Security discussion regarding hubs, firewalls, anti-virus and Vista Security



"eganders" <eganders@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1ccbb3b6-01f3-40a2-83e2-ab2f7440b568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


For the wireless you can do sometings to better protect your situation.

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelesssecurity/tp/wifisecurity.htm

For the XP or Vista O/S, you need to further harden the O/S(s) to attack, like use Authenticated user group on file shares, disable the Guest account and remove Everyone off of files and folders, along with other things you can do, etc, etc.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/winxpsecuritychecklist.htm
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/checklist/

If you want to protect a business, then you need to come away from the Linksys NAT router and step up to a low-end FW appliance, like a Watchguard, Cisco, Snapgear, Sonicwall etc, etc those kind of solutions and not use a NAT router for home usage. FW appliances cost a little more and are affordable. You can even get a refurbished used one from reputable dealer that has a warrantee from a reputable dealer, which you can call the maufature to get names of dealers. A low end FW appliance is a plug it up and go device that needs very little configuration on your part, like the Linksys NAT router.

Here is some infromation to help you in your FW selection process.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp
http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html
http://www.more.net/technical/netserv/tcpip/firewalls/

You can use something like Wallwatcher so that you see inbound and outbound traffic, even for wireless on the devices.

http://sonic.net/wallwatcher/




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