Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Server Security

By Elisha Marty


In recent days with increasing popularity of BSD and Linux, it made sense that Microsoft creates a personal web server available for home use. The server security problems are those problem which can pop up instead of having various new technologies.

When an individual tries to set up their home based web server, many of them have no idea about server security. A number of people have a false sense of security that if they set up a web server on their home computer, it can be connected to it except those friends whom they tell about this. A user who has a specific IP address can easily access their web server.

There are many types of attacks that hamper security. DDos is abbreviated for Distributed Denial of service attack which is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Though targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of those persons who helped to prevent a service from functioning efficiently or temporarily. A password crack is a form of attack that can be done using dictionary attack by guessing password over and over. A mis-configuration attack is a variety of things that can be done due to mis configuration. To avoid this kind of attack existing settings need to be changed or new settings need to be created every time.

The possible ways to be safe from being hacked are as follows. Getting trained in recent security management system for internet. Being experienced in identifying potentially strong threats. Choosing an operating system to ensure maximum server security. Scanning for threat identification and termination security of threats.

Firewalls are not enough alone to have a strong security. The administrative passwords and the system passwords need to be updated on a regular basis in order to thwart all hacking efforts. All the systems that have access to the server should be updating the passwords to the access regularly. The DBA should give privileges to change the data on the server only as and when required. You should remove unnecessary services like, FTP (File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a protocol that could be used by hackers. So remove anything from your script that looks un-necessary. These tips and tricks learned, the knowledge maintained and the alertness can save our script and our server, which is the building block of all businesses.




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