19.1. Security Basics

One of the first steps in developing a secure environment is to develop a baseline of the minimum security needs of your organization. A security baseline defines the level of security that will be implemented and maintained. You can choose to set a low baseline by implementing next to no security, or a high baseline that doesn't allow users to make any changes at all to the network or to their systems. In practicality, most implementations fall between the two extremes; you must determine what is best for your organization.

NOTE

Microsoft provides a tool, the Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer, for establishing a security baseline and for subsequent evaluations of security on Windows 2000 and higher OSs.

The baseline ...

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