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Checklist for a Network Security Policy

There are many threats that today's growing small businesses need to be concerned with. Paramount among these concerns are content-related and physical-access threats.

Content-related threats generally refer to access of content from the Internet by internal users of the network in violation of company policies. But a new type of content-related threat is an infected file that combines several stand-alone viruses or attack methods in one package. For example, the myDoom virus, using e-mail as its carrier, set up an SMTP e-mail relay engine on each computer it infected to propagate the virus throughout the network. These so-called blended threats are complex and often avoid detection entirely.

Unauthorized access to corporate network resources can occur in many forms. The most common example is an external hacker trying to gain access to equipment and information on a corporate network. Internal users represent a risk as well, either purposely or accidentally, by using restricted resources of the network. An internal user may even hide his or her identity by "spoofing" an IP address of a resource that already exists on the network. RedOrbit - Technology - Can You Recommend a Checklist for a Network Security Policy?

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