Network management strategies require you to ensure your network is setup to be able to function properly together. To ensure the network is setup to function correctly, the user rights control, mail server control, network setup are established to secure a network. Control of user rights will enabled the control of information and access across the network. User rights across the network will be controlled by group policies provided by Windows 7 Enterprise. Group policy will control how user access resource on shared drives and allow tunneling access through vpn when on a business trip. Group policy will allow ease of propagation of user rights across the network. It is important to control access on a mail server as spear phishing and other methods could allow access into your network. The control of mail …show more content…
This will allow a central control of the mail server enabling you to encrypt and use digital signatures to ensure the emails are from the authorized personnel and sensitive data is secure. Network interaction on how it is connected is important in any network system setup. The Cisco ASA 5500 is the IPS and front line point of security for the network. There will need to be considerable amount of rules and setting configured on the devices. It is always important to configure the firewall for the most efficient rules set possible because (K Yoon, 2010) " as the rule set grows larger, the number of configuration errors on a firewall increases sharply, while the performance of the firewall degrades" (p. 218). The devices will also allow VPN hosts from service agents in travel to be able to communicate back with the company when required. The Web server will be set into partial DMZ