Securing Windows 2000 Professional on Workstation Role

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Author: gigsvoo PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:05 am    Post subject: Securing Windows 2000 Professional on Workstation Role
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Hi there,

Does anyone has any quick and simple guidelines to secure Windows 2000 Professional on Workstation Role? The following are done:

- WindowsUpdates for Service Packs, Patches, Updates
- Behind a solid firewall of CheckPoint
- Using Fixed internal IP from DNS server

Also, provided the following applications are running at workstation:

- Surfing internet using IE
- Checking email using webmail (Yahoo! and Hotmail)
- Using MS Outlook 2000 for accessing network email from MS Exchange
- Norton Antivirus Corp Edition 7.6 installed with latest updates
- Using messaging software with P2P, File transfer disabled. Uses only HTTP and port 25 for connections.

Noted: Please do not advise to change/discard any software mentioned above for security measurement although it may proven to be TRUE, as I agreed. But here I need some advise to make these to be the best settings and policy ever.

Author: ShaolinTigerLocation: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:29 am    Post subject:
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Read this:

http://www.darknet.org.uk/content/files/securewin2k.txt

Ensure Outlook is also patched.

Make sure your IE settings are SECURE.

Make sure NAV autoupdates with the latest definitions and is passworded (can't be disabled by user or trojan).

If you wanted to be really secure I'd probably add a free personal firewall to each machine to lock them down even tighter.

Rename local admin accounts, set full auditing etc..

Author: gigsvoo PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:16 pm    Post subject:
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Rename local admin account? Set full auditing? I am newbie, how to do this? Sad



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