PART 1.
There will be a Lunch and Learn to cover Ken 7’s updated security policies.2. End users will be notified of the new password policy: User passwords will be a minimum of eight letters, numbers and special characters. The passwords must be changed every 90 days. Users will not be allowed to use the past six passwords.
3.Inform end users weekly update checks will be ran for all software and any security patches will be applied during non-normal business hours.4. Remind end users it is not only stupid to write passwords down, it is against company security policy. End users will be reminded that passwords should be easy to remember but cannot be found in the dictionary.
Firewalls are a key part of keeping networked computers safe and secure. All computers deserve the protection of a firewall, whether it’s the thousands of servers and desktops that compose the network of a Fortune 500 company, a traveling salesperson’s laptop connecting to the wireless network of a coffee shop, or your grandmother’s new PC with a dial-up connection to the Internet. …show more content…
Although home users have traditionally used only host-based firewalls, recent trends in security exploits highlight the importance of using both types of firewalls together. Traditional firewall architectures protect only the perimeter of a network. However, once an attacker penetrates that perimeter, internal systems are completely unprotected. Hybrid worms, in particular, have penetrated corporate networks through email systems, and then have spread quickly to unprotected internal systems. Applying host-based firewalls to all systems, including those behind the corporate firewall, should now be standard