Security News > 2020 > March > 10 best practices for using Windows servers

Automated tools exist to ensure that your Windows servers stay as secure and trouble-free as the day they were set up.

Here is a simple set of management principles that are easy to implement at any budget and skill level to help your IT department take hold of its Windows servers and make sure they are managed efficiently and securely, while being optimized to deliver the best performance possible.

Windows servers have a great deal of logging capability available by default.

Lucky for us, access to servers and their services can be restricted through a number of ways, such as configuring firewall rules to limit access to servers from remote connections, requiring VPN tunneling be used to secure communications to and from network resources, and configuring the use of certificate-based authentication to verify that the system being connected-both to and from-are repudiated and trusted.

Whether you're implementing security devices such as a network intrusion prevention system or your clustered servers need load balancers, use the data you've gleaned from your monitoring and baselines to perform a needs assessment for your various servers and the services they provide.

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