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Hi All, Basically i want to monitor all the activities of my administrators. Is there any way I can find out all the activities on a Windows 2000 Server eg:- success / failure logs ,which users had logged on to a server , user creation time ,service stopped at what time, what scripts have been...
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Hi all, Thanks to all those who answered to my question"FTP sites" Can anyone of you let me know about the available products that we can use for our organisations IT security..Also let me know what products are available to find out vulnerabilities in a network. Appreciate your response. Thanks...
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Fortinet All in One Security Appliance
Hi, Anyone familiar with Fortinet Aplliance? They claim to be leading vendore providing Firewall, IPS , Intrusion detection, VPN etc. solution in one single unit at low cost. Although our security engineer is pushing for the proiduct but i have many reservation about the integraity and fear of...
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Reporting domain/workgroup membership on your LAN using PERL
This is more of an FYI. I just posted a perl script that I use to generate a daily report of all Workstations and Servers located on our LAN. This report is sorted by domain/workgroup membership and includes any visible shares on the machine. If anyone is interested you can read it here:...
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Need guidiance from pros already into the game
Hi, I am a United Stated Marine stationed overseas since 2003, majoring in Information technology with National University. I am still an idiot in the field and thats why i joined this group. To get a glance of what to ecpect in the future. I am asking for your help in guiding me through whatever...
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We have recently switched to allowing only Power User rights on notebook computers. We have a set of notebooks we loan out to employees with desktops when they need to travel. Currently those users will login with an account named loaner and use scripts and webmail to access the network. Discussion...
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OWA using SelfSSL and Certificate Services removal
Hey there... I am curretly running Exchange 2003 on W2k3 member server. I installed Certificate Services and produced my own certificate and all works well with OWA. I recently found out that SelfSSL is available but not quite as robust, which would probably be good. I removed Cert services and was...
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I wanted to check on a possible solution for a problem we have run into with our module moves. Cause of audit requirements we can't have pgmr's in the productions systems. So as a work around I have them creating their code in sourclib on the test partition then I have operations copying it into a...
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IT Tech Assistant/No Admin Rights
I have hired a new IT support person, and I wanted to give him access to restart services ex: Print services, in my absense which occasionally needs resetting. Is their a way to give someone strict access to only restart services?
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I am pretty new to the 2003 Microsoft world, but I am NT 4 MCSE. My setup: 2 W2K3 DC's 1 Exchange 2K3 member server 1 W2K3 member server--web server about 60 users--single domain some of my users want to use Outlook Web Access to get their mail from home (approx. 10-15) Everything is set up and...
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having a printer ,connected to a LAN but it not being a net work print just it's connected to one of the hosts on the net work and it's shared ,then the problem with its is that at anytime it prints by it self ,and it prints some sort of code in the head of a page ,and it will print till the...
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SYSVOL Sharing across network concern
Good morning to all. First off, let me thank everyone for their past help and support I have received from this search2000 group. I have a concern about a folder being shared across my network called SYSVOL. I know it is related to the Domain controller and maybe for scripts that have been added....
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hi, could you please tell me which command in cisco routers prevent them from being ping from outside networks. and also how can i prevent terminals inside a network to ping outside ips(group policies etc??). thanks
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Resticting Members of BuiltinAdministrator to just be able to create Domain Trust
In windows 2000/2003, Can we restrict a BuiltinAdministrators member to have just enough rights so that he/she can only create/delete domain Trust. The requirement that we have is to be programmatically create trust with all the domains in a given forest. The other part of the requirement is to...
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I am graduate student at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and am conducting research to gather empirical data on the subject of information security. My goal is to gain a better understanding of what IT professionals believe is an adequate level of information / network...
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Stuck with WEP – will increasing key lengths help harden WLAN?
I have potential security issues on my wireless LAN because my equipment is older and I can?t use WPA. I'm worried that my data is vulnerable. If I increase my WEP key length from 40 to 128 or greater, will this help?
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Is Windows security an afterthought?
As the editor of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, I often speak with users about their Windows security responsibilities. One senior systems analyst in particular sent me an interesting note recently... To give you some background, he's in charge of configuring and administering desktop systems...
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How did I get a virus on my computer?
Do you hear that question or something similar too often? We're taking an informal survery on SearchSecurity.com to find out what the most common security-related user questions are. Results will be compiled into a question and answer tip that you will be able to post or handout to your users. What...
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*This question is from a SearchWindowsSecurity.com reader: I'm in a position to redesign our IT systems (network, servers, PCs, software, etc.) this summer, and I am undecided on which path to take. I'd like to disconnect our systems from the Internet so that we don't have to deal with all of the...
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Secure Email Delivery Applications
I am currently searching for the best application or service to provide end to end security for delivering encrypted emails from one company to another accross the Internet. I need the solutions to provide Smime, PGP, TLS, SSL, etc. My goal is to some how have the app or user decide if the email...
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