...Remote access policies validate a number of connection settings before authorizing the connection, including the following: • Remote access permission • Group membership • Type of connection • Time of day • Authentication methods • Advanced conditions: ◦ Access server identity ◦ Access client phone number or MAC address ◦ Whether user account dial-in properties are ignored ◦ Whether unauthenticated access is allowed After the connection is authorized, remote access policies can also be used to specify connection restrictions, including the following: • Idle timeout time • Maximum session time • Encryption strength • IP packet filters • Advanced restrictions: ◦ IP address for PPP connections ◦ Static routes Additionally, you can vary connection restrictions based on the following settings: • Group membership • Type of connection • Time of day • Authentication methods • Identity of the access server • Access client phone number or MAC address • Whether unauthenticated access is allowed For example, you can have policies that specify different maximum session times for different types of connections or groups. Additionally, you can specify restricted access for business partners or unauthenticated connections. Authorizing access There are two ways to use remote access policies to grant authorization: 1. By user 2....
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...Starting the lab, we had to do a few security tasks on the laptop. One of the first things we did was create different user accounts. This involves setting up multiple accounts with different access levels, which helps ensure that only authorized users can access important information. We also created different files, including zip files, to help us organize and secure data. Learning to use Ctrl+Alt+Delete was part of the lab as well. This shortcut is useful for tasks like restarting the computer or accessing the task manager to close unresponsive programs. There were many new things I learned during the lab. Some tasks, like creating user accounts and organizing files, are straightforward. Others are more complex and harder to remember. For example, I learned how...
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...component developed by Microsoft that can be installed on Windows Server operating systems to provide users with Single Sign-On access to systems and applications located across organizational boundaries. It uses a claims-based access control authorization model to maintain application security and implement federated. Claims based authentication is the process of authenticating a user based on a set of claims about its identity contained in a trusted token. Such a token is often issued and signed by an entity that is able to authenticate the user by other means, and that is trusted by the entity doing the claims based authentication. In AD FS, identity federation is established between two organizations by establishing trust between two security realms. A federation server on one side (the Accounts side) authenticates the user through the standard means in Active Directory Domain Services and then issues a token containing a series of claims about the user, including its identity. On the other side, the Resources side, another federation server validates the token and issues another token for the local servers to accept the claimed identity. This allows a system to provide controlled access to its resources or services to a user that belongs to another security realm without requiring the user to authenticate directly to the system and without the two systems sharing a database of user identities or passwords. Another function is Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services...
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...MD 21085. Company’s today relay on good networking in order for their business to grow and succeed. A system engineer requires the ability, knowledge, and skill to plan and manage today’s networking which faces an ever-increasing variety of applications. We need to be skilled and informed to manage a network running Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Present day networking administrators have difficulties ensuring that network resources are available to users when access is needed and securing the network in such a way that available resources are accessible to the proper user with the proper permission. We will have to solve networking problems including troubleshooting, configuration, installation, administration, and managing element. Starting from choosing the best Windows Server 2003 Edition that will meet the company’s needs in terms of price, performance and features; work group woes, name resolution nightmares and DNS name conflicts to server security. These problems can be solved with proper planning, managing, and designing a day-to-day administration of an Active Directory domain within their Windows Server 2003 network environment. We predict that implementing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory will beat and exceed company goals. By detailing the crucial role, it plays in providing a secure and operational network including using technical tools to manage, troubleshoot, and maintain the network system. Active directory was first introduced in Windows 2000...
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...installation and configuration. • Managing the security aspects of user accounts: creating and assigning roles, developing secure password policies, restricting data access to only the appropriate users, and so on • Ensuring secure network connections • Encrypting and decrypting sensitive data • Ensuring the database has no security vulnerabilities and protection against intruders • Deciding what database components to audit and how granular you want this auditing to be • Downloading and installing security patches you might be able to perform these...
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...maximum skill transfer and retention. In addition, GUI-based tools will be featured to build on the students' existing technical knowledge, while key command line concepts will be introduced to provide a foundation for students planning to become fulltime Linux system administrators. By the end of the five-day course, students will be able to perform installation, establish network connectivity, manage physical storage, and perform basic security administration. LINUX-6 Course Outline Unit 1: Get Started with the GNOME Graphical Desktop Objective: Get started with GNOME and edit text files with gedit Unit 2: Manage Files Graphically with Nautilus Objective: Manage files graphically and access remote systems with Nautilus Unit 3: Get Help in a Graphical Environment Objective: Access documentation, both locally and online Unit 4: Configure Local Services Objective: Configure the date and time and configure a printer Unit 5: Manage Physical Storage I Objective: Understand basic disk concepts and manage system disks Unit 6: Manage Logical Volumes Objective: Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes Unit 7: Monitor System Resources Objective: Manage CPU, memory, and disk utilization Unit 8: Manage System Software Objective: Manage system software locally and using Red Hat Network (RHN) Unit 9: Get Started with Bash Objective: Understand basic shell concepts, execute simple...
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... The following are some considerations about Active Directory and the integration with the current network. Currently, system administrators create Ken 7 users in each computer where users need access. In the Active Directory, where will system administrators create Ken 7 users? In Active Directory (AD) system administrators would create users in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), which is used to create & edit GPO’s (Group Policy Object), import & export GPO’s, copy & paste GPO’s, back-up & restore GPO’s, search for GPO’s, or create reports on GPO’s. By creating the GPO’s for each department (eg. Administrators, Planners, Shop Floor users, Managers, Purchasing users, Accounting users), proper access/privileges are granted based on department needs. How will the procedures for making changes to the user accounts, such as password changes, be different in the Active Directory? Through Active Directory (AD), the sys admin would be able to have the passwords changed by each user by Active Directory managing the “roll-out” of asking that passwords being changed & needed security strength of the password by the internal automation of Active Directory. This is randomly handled by AD in a “90” or “120” day timeframe. What action should administrators take for the existing workgroup user accounts after converting to the Active Directory? As prior to the implementation of Active Directory, the existing workgroups were managed individually (mistakes could...
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...Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a company specializing in software as a service (SaaS). In June 2004, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol CRM, raising US$110 million. Company Specializes in cloud based CRM and offers SaaS and PaaS solutions. Growth of Cloud Based Services A series of macro-trends is fundamentally changing the way businesses must operate. Globalization is changing the competitive landscape, and mobility is changing the way workers do their jobs. An explosion of consumer-oriented, on-demand services, led by Amazon.com and Apple’s iTunes, has taught people how easy it can be to access and share information or the goods and services they want. These experiences, combined with the escalating competitive climate and challenges of managing an increasingly dispersed workforce as well as rapidly developing secure internet infrastructure are forcing businesses of all sizes to re-think how they acquire and utilize software applications. Unwilling to continue to tolerate the operating inefficiencies and ongoing costs of traditional on-premise software products, a growing number of businesses are now...
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...Dear Mrs. Simmons: I am sending you the following paper. “Microsoft Active Directory: How to effectively manage corporate network environments with cost savings” while adhering to the requirements for the final research paper for English 235: Technical Writing. Throughout my report I will show examples of per computer cost savings that can be achieved by using Microsoft Active Directory. These savings can be leveraged on any size corporate network to help make IT services more effective and enhance productivity. I will also explain how Active Directory makes IT management easier in regards to implementing large scale changes while securing the corporate network. The report will show different levels of Microsoft’s Infrastructure Optimization Model, along with options and cost savings. The report will further investigate how each optimization option can save money per PC each year by implementing one of these models. The audience of this report includes Chief Information Officers (CIO) and other leadership personnel from corporations large and small. The report will show how each company can independently profit from taking advantage from one or more of the strategies included. The report will explain the different strategies of the Infrastructure Optimization Model, how they can be implemented and the cost benefit for each. After reading through this report readers should have a greater understanding of how Active Directory secures a network and also how it can...
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...8/20/2014 Discussion Activity #4 Instructions - AMBA 640 9044 Managing Projects, Operations, and Information Systems (2145) Discussion Activity #4 Instructions Basic Instructions: During Weeks 8 and 9, working in teams under the leadership of a student CIO and Assistant CIO, the section drafts an information systems management (ISM) plan for Acme Mexico City. In doing so, the section completes the work tasked as Assignment 4 in the Four Assignments Package to be found in Content/General Information. Additional Instructions: In view of our time constraints, this will be a draft ISM plan. Acme corporate headquarters will have standards, policies, and expectations with which Acme Mexico City (AMC) must comply. These may be hypothesized. Acme Mexico City will need to support both store-internal and -external IS needs Internal needs will include support of at least store Business processes and operations Decision mak ing by employees and managers Strategies to gain competitive advantage Human resource needs External needs will include at least: Reporting to Acme corporate Meeting Mexican and US government regulatory requirements Fulfilling supplier and customer expectations in this business sector in Mexico City Any format that logically and succinctly addresses that above needs may be used A sample IM (=ISM) plan for a health services organization follows below. It is deliberately for such an organization because: Health services is another important business sector supported...
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...include user, system and application, and LAN domains. First I will cover the term "Internal Use Only data". This is when data is intended to stay within an organization. Data not provided to outside sources or companies due to some reason from personal information to military activity. Due to laws and data classifications this one of several categories to protect data leakage, loss, or privacy. The user domain covers roles, responsibilities, accountability, and training. In order for a person to access any network there are security measures to be conducted first. Users’ should sign acceptable use policy to access network resources. HR department will conduct back ground checks in order to verify the person’s identity, this is the accountability process. Having the wrong type of people on a network can be damaging to an organization or leak data. Job roles will give the end user access to need to know basis of data. End users are responsible for good work habits that are in compliance with the work place that prohibit the following activates include personal business, romance, and external devices use. The systems and applications domain covers software, applications, operating system, and hardware design. For this domain it's about keeping data secure both hardware and software. Access to equipment closets and rooms needs to be controlled. Access to virtual servers need to be managed for access. Need system administrator to create users and objects while managing permissions...
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...organization. User Domain: Employee lack of education. A social engineer can trick an employee into giving up there credentials. Users can visit risky web sites and download and execute infected software. Workstation Domain: Susceptible to malicious software. The anti-virus software is installed and up to date. Computers that aren’t patched can be exploited. LAN Domain: Any data on the network that is not secured with appropriate access controls is vulnerable. Weak passwords can be cracked. Permissions that aren’t assigned properly allow unauthorized access. LAN to WAN Domain: Users can visit risky web sites and download and execute infected software. Firewalls with unnecessary ports open allow access to the internal network from the internet. WAN Domain: Any public facing server is susceptible to DoS and DDoS attacks. A FTP server that allows anonymous uploads can host worms from hackers. Remote Access Domain: An attacker can access unprotected connections allowing the attacker to capture and read the data. System/Application Domain: Threats would be not changing default passwords, unneeded services and protocols. 2. Identify the vulnerability’s in the seven domains. User Domain: User’s going to unrestricted websites and executing infected software. Workstation Domain: If computers anti- virus software is not up to date then it is exploited. LAN Domain: A user that doesn’t change their password on a regular basis is vulnerable to having their account hacked. ...
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...Kandanchathanpilli Individual Paper Given that you need to support 5000 users, that means that it is most likely a big company or an enterprise you are working for, is doing very well or is well off that it has that many employees. Although most of the UNIX systems depend on the file access control (FAC) scheme that it was originally introduced with, each person who had a login name has a different user identification name or aka user id. Lets take the user name jrcas872 for example. This user name is a member of a primary group, and may also be associated with other groups within the operating system when a file is created within one of the users account, it stamps the users name on that file. So let us say that jrcas872 created a file named “Suicide Prevention”, and jrcas872 was the master account on this system. He only wants a certain 4,990 individuals to access the account, there are two ways someone can go about this. Lets say that jrcas872 has 5000 people in his system, and only wants all but ten to be able to access his file. Jrcas872 might want to begin by creating a list of names of the 4,990 people he want them to have access to his file. A name list is what it sounds like, a list of names that are authorized to enter and see that one file, make changes and save it. Sort of like a share drive. That is basically the same thing, you have a file that you place on a drive that anyone can access, but only a certain amount of designated people are allowed to use that one...
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...compilation of a variety of information technology applications that allows for a central repository of information associated to patient care throughout distributed locations. This repository comprises the patient's history of sicknesses and his/her interactions with care providers by encryption of knowledge competent to assist clinicians determine about the patient's state, treatment options, and wellness activities (Sittig et. al., 2002). The repository also converts the position of decisions, actions ongoing for those decisions, and applicable information useful to perform those actions. As well, the database also produces information about the patient, including his/her genetic, environmental, and social contexts. Users of the System: Key users of this system and information produced by it are health care providers, clinicians, nurses, hospitals etc. All past and present information about patient at a place assists health care providers in diagnosing and treating a patient and monitoring that patient’s care. Clinical information systems significantly assists doctors and...
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...Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment Managing Access to an Active Directory Environment A group is a combination of users and computers with some authentication to control usage. The group is controlled by IT administrators who manage everything including users, data, and computers. At the time of creating a group, there are certain limitations that are set to decide who and how access will be delegated to a resource. With these limitations, it makes it very easy and effective to mitigate discrepancies as there are certain authentications to each user. There are two types of such groups that Microsoft Windows has: * Security Group * Distribution Group Distribution groups can be used only with email applications, such as Exchange to send email to user pools. Distribution groups are not security-enabled, which means that they cannot be listed in discretionary access control lists (DACLs). The resources on a network are secured via security groups. This group determines to give authentications and user permissions to reach the data on the Active Directory, and such groups give authentications to access the resources and are to be found on Discretionary Access Control Lists. The group can have a control that encompasses everything, can be limited to a certain extent or can be further narrowed down as well. It has a universal level of control that share data with every domain on the network. The Active Directory administrator can manage the groups as...
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