ISA Server 2006 is the next version of the ISA firewall product line. In the past we’ve focused on the ISA firewall’s firewall components and how you can deploy the ISA firewall in a number of firewall roles, such as edge firewall, back-end firewall, services segment firewall, and wireless LAN firewall. We’ve been promoting the ISA firewall deployment concept for almost six years, and we’ll continue to do that.
This series consist of two articles whereby I will cover the hardening of your ISA 2004 server, in this article I will cover auditing of the firewall and how to go about checking things that need to be done.
Many people have asked me over the years how to control what computers can connect to a published RDP (terminal server) using ISA firewall Server Publishing Rules. While I’ve discussed the options available in the Server Publishing Rule Properties dialog box, I’ve never done any articles on how to accomplish this task. This made me think of all the other small configuration issues that I’ve answered questions about over the years, but never wrote about them because the article wouldn’t be detailed enough to meet my general quality requirements for www.isaserver.org.
This series consists of two articles whereby I will cover the hardening of your ISA 2004 server. This part of your firewall procedure is extremely important and often overlooked by many. Firewalls inherently are set up to be secure but there are certain procedures that make them a lot more secure. These articles will cover some of the important considerations.
In this article we’ll go over the following procedures: Create the HTTP/HTTPS Access Rule to Deny Access to MSN Messenger; Configure the User Group Exception and the HTTP Security Filter on the Deny Rule; Create the Allow Rule for the Excepted Users.
ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 is the next logical step in Security for ISA Server 2004. ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 has many new features like HTTP compression, caching of BITS-Updates, Diffserv for HTTP and some other enhancements. In this article I will show you how to install Service Pack 2 and I will give you a high level overview about the new features.
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