[441] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Tidswell)
Fri Feb 24 01:22:00 1995
From: Jonathon Tidswell <t-jont@microsoft.com>
To: Allyson.Kurker@Dartmouth.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 11:33:33 TZ
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Disclaimer:
I am a postgraduate student on a scholarship, not an employee of Microsoft ...
Allyson Kurker wrote:
|
| Hi, I am a student at Dartmouth College and I am doing a project on
security of
| the internet within colleges and universities. I was wondering if
you had any
| info on how to make email acounts, viruses, break-ins etc more safe
on college
| campuses. Any info you have would be much appriciated. Thanks,
| Allyson Kurker
Allyson,
There are many ways of increasing security, however your question is
too vague to
be answered effectively - its too difficult to tell which could be applied.
In order to answer your question, you need to define what you mean by "safe",
and what sort of cost is acceptable both initial capital and ongoing system
administration. (In general "safer" systems cost more and take more effort
to maintain --- keep "safe")
It would also help to identify any constraints that are to be applied,
such constraints
could include (not an exaustive list) particular operating systems,
hardware platforms, modem availability.
You will probably find more information in the newsgroup comp.security.misc,
and on the firewalls archives ftp.greatcircle.com and ftp.tis.com.
The address of the firewalls mailing list is in the archives, reading
the archives
should help you phrase your question better before you post it to
various places.
Some ideas off the top of my head:
secure operating systems
one time passwords
not making insecure services available
PGP mail
firewalls
personal computers with with individual responsibility
I doubt that all of the above ideas are applicable to your
circumstances, however your circustances remain unstated. Additionally
I have not attempted to define
what I mean by secure.
regards,
Jon Tidswell
