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Tudor Davies

author Tudor is a techie turned manager who fights like mad to keep his tech skills honed and relevant. Everything from web hosting, networking, *nix and the like. Constantly developing and co-ordinating with others to make the web a better (and easier to use) place.

Golden Rules

Thursday, 20th Jan 2011 Posted @ 15:58

Having read huge numbers of articles both on the web and in print, managed firewalls myself and managed firewall techies, these are my golden rules for network security:

Change passwords
Keep up to date
Secure your wireless
Physical Security
Network visibility
Strong Passwords
Security Management Tool
Deploy anti-virus
Maintain seperation
Test, test and test again

Also, my 6 step guide to firewall maintenance:

Check your final rule
Restrict access
Implement Change Management
Implement change detection and notification
Document your config
Review and remove unused rules

I will expand these over the coming weeks.

I am also working on a site that hopefully will become a bit of a business sideline. Website monitoring but a bit more. Not a "can I ping it?" but more of a "can I ping it, is the web server giving me proper page, is it the correct response or a 404, etc" service. The plan is to offer a website you can leave running which will update every 5 minutes or so, or it can send email alerts to an address if there is an alert.
Am thinking about a tiered pricing structure that includes a free basic option.
There is a small amount of competition out there but I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve that should make me stand out from the rest :) What I do need though, is a developer, so we can put a remotely managed startup together. And thats just one of my ideas!

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