Server Hardening
Your server real estate will be used to deliver data in a secure, reliable fashion. To fulfil this, you will need to ensure that integrity of the data, confidentiality and availability are maintained. Physical location as well as unauthorised access, unauthorised use and disruptions to service goes a long way to maintaining this.
Leveraging Group Policy
Equally, different server types have different security requirements. By
developing security models for each server type it is possible through
group policies to ensure the same settings are deployed automatically to each server. This is achieved by creating organisational units in Active Directory specific to each server type and then applying the necessary group policies. This will avoid user error, but should be thoroughly tested in a lab environment before deploying onto your production servers.
Embrionic Expertise
Embrionic can assist you in developing a server hardened environment the
design, testing, deployment and processes. This can include patch management,
anti-virus, prevent denial of service attacks and much more. How secure are your servers?
Consider the following recommended practices, these are by no means extensive, but you should be at least conforming to them:
Install operating system and applications from approved licensed source media only
Ensure vendor supplied patches, hot fixes and service packs are updated regularly
Remove unnecessary software
Disable services that are not required
Disable the default accounts
Set security parameters, file protections and enable audit logging
Ensure you have virus protection and update policies
