With 2006 coming to a close, SearchWindowsSecurity.com has compiled the top five Windows server hardening tips of 2006. Testing is of course a top priority for any Windows security professional and ...

Securing Windows Server operating system requires a proactive and comprehensive approach. Let us start with a simple, yet vital requirement: Patch, patch, and then patch again. One of the most ...

Hawaii isn’t as much fun when you’re cursing. Standing on a balcony for six and a half hours waiting for a network testing tool to work so you can test the 1.2 mile laser link that’s been up and ...

These days, it's more important than ever to tighten up the security on your servers, yet if you were to look at several official hardening guides, they read as though they were written for Red Hat ...

I'm starting to work on building a security-hardened template for when we start deploying Server 2019. Windows Firewall comes with all sorts of seemingly-extraneous rules allowed by default (like ...

Introduced in Windows Server 2008, Core refers to a hardening of the OS by which the attack surface of the server is minimized by removing the GUI and any unnecessary optional installations.

In my last article, I talked about the classic, complicated approach to server hardening you typically will find in many hardening documents and countered it with some specific, simple hardening steps ...