How To Tighten Security

To protect your system from unauthorized users accessing, corrupting, or changing information, and to make the network available to authorized users:

• Regularly change passwords and encourage using not-easy-to-guess passwords. Solaris for ISPs software forces all passwords to change periodically if local files are used for password management.

• Use public-key cryptography to encrypt all traffic between trusted hosts at the IP level. SKIP, bundled with Solaris for ISPs, authenticates incoming IP traffic and ensures that outgoing data is not altered or viewed by others while in transit.

• Use routers that can identify trusted hosts and block spoofed IP addresses.

• Fix vulnerabilities and bulletproof your software.

• Disable unwanted services that open your network to security risks. Solaris for ISPs host configuration software, as part of the initial installation process, can disable some 'r' commands to ensure protection for passwords and to restrict access to hosts for unauthorized individuals.

• Provide employees access only to the data or information their work requires.

• Implement security mechanisms such as network monitoring and firewalls.