How to stay one step ahead of hackers.

By Alan Rimm-kaufman

Executive Questions:

Do we maintain our own Web servers, or do we outsource them?

Who is responsible for patching our server OS?

How frequently do we apply patches, and when did we last patch?

Who monitors the weekly SANS vulnerability alerts? And who covers when that person is on vacation?

3. Turn off every port and service that you don’t absolutely need. A “service” is a program that allows a computer to serve Web pages, send or receive mail, etc. A “port” is a channel on which a server listens and talks to the outside world.