Unit 2 Discussion 1: Familiar Domains

As an IT Admin you mainly deal with all seven domains, but the ones I deal with currently are work station, user domain and remote access. In any environment that you work with any of these 7 domains countermeasures are needed. It’s very important to make sure your network is secure and there are quite a few actions to take to ensure that it is safe as possible. Although no domains are 100% secured it’s always good to make sure all updates and patches are up to the most recent. I will also name a few other ways to protect certain domains in a typical IT infrastructure. Some countermeasures to take for user domain are making sure to have all users aware of security. Also have restricted access for a company’s terminal server and observe abnormal employee activity. Anti-virus is also needed to make sure the computers servers aren’t infected with malicious programs that cause loss in important documents. With a work station you can add a firewall to prevent unwanted traffic from infiltrating the network. Ensuring that your workstation has the latest service packs and patches update will also help protect any holes that could lead to hacking. Also with remote access it’s good to make sure only that person has access to certain files and must keep their password secure and not make a weak password so it does not get compromised. All these countermeasures serve as security and deterrents for any possible ways threats by people or viruses can cause damage to your typical IT infrastructure.