Understanding Outlook 2003 Security Enhancements Outlook 2003 includes enhanced secured messaging through: S/MIME version 3 support Smart card support Digital signatures Email encryption. With Outlook 2003, support for S/MIME version 3 provides a number of security features: The public key of the sender can be used to encrypt email messages. The private key of the recipient is needed to open and decrypt the email message. The Active Directory Group Policy feature can be used to implement S/MIME within an organization. The X.509v3 standard, which requires third-party encryption keys, is also Read More

Application and Terminal Servers Security Issues Organizations use Application servers to make data available on the network. For instance, the application server role makes Web applications and distributed applications available to users. A Web server usually contains a copy of a World Wide Web site and can also host Web based applications. Application servers can also run database and e-mail servers. Defining a standard security strategy for application servers is usually not possible because each application could indeed have its own specific security requirements. One common security configuration though is Read More

Group Policy Objects (GPOs) containing Group Policy settings can be linked to sites, domains, and organizational units (OUs), so that they are applied to user objects or computer objects located in the particular site, domain, or OU in Active Directory. Because of numerous Group Policy settings that exist, and the flexibility of group policies, Group Policy management can be an intricate task. GPOs can be linked, filtered, inherited and blocked, and are cumulative when they are applied to the local computer, site, domain or OU. Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) Read More