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Top 15 Network Security Vulnerabilities that System Administrators Must Know

This post aims to help you familiarize with the top 15 commonly known network and system security vulnerablitis. If you are a new administrator, you can have a look at the following list.

ACLs on the border router

The ACLs you place in your router, especially in the border router, should not allow inadequate access to your other devices connected to your router. A few misconfigured router ACLs can potentially allow information leakage through ICMP, IP, NetBIOS, and lead to unauthorized access to services on your DMZ server. So, make sure your border router has appropriate ACL in place in the right interface. [Read more…] about Top 15 Network Security Vulnerabilities that System Administrators Must Know

Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns

To many IT professionals, webhosting security means protecting websites from hackers and malicious codes. But most of the time we forget to consider that  websites security depends on a number of components such  as server , application , database, scripts etc. One of the most important aspects of webhost security is to ensure continuous operation and disaster recovery of web services. This post aims to develop a broader picture that can help you to take necessary steps to ensure your sites continuous operation. [Read more…] about Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns

IIS Security Settings

The version of IIS is all about its modules and functions. If you are just learning IIS then before reading this article, it is better to take  a closer look at the IIS manger on your server and then go through the following  instructions. To secure your IIS server you need to put some extra care to the following settings of IIS server

  1. IIS authentication
  2. IPv4 and domain rules
  3. ISAPI and CGI
  4. Filtering request
  5. Configuration to shared  hosting sites
  6. Authorize the URLs in your server      [Read more…] about IIS Security Settings