13.6. Summary
Throughout this chapter we have discussed securing your file shares. While many of the security mechanisms that have been put in place by Apple will help, such as the LKDC and various encryption protocols, but they will not be effective if your password is not secure. They can also be easily circumvented if you do not have good password policies, such as requiring a password to be changed at certain intervals (see Chapter 16 for more on password policies). Therefore, the most important aspect of securing your files over file shares is to practice good password security.
In Chapter 14, we will turn our attention to perhaps the most popular way to access data today, web servers.
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