Harden your network services and contain zero-day threats

We all dread the thought of zero-day threats; they arrive and you have no vaccine for them. These exploits are all too common in recent months and years. Fortunately, there are some common sense steps you can take to harden your network layer against these threats.

You may not know exactly what the exploit is, but you can certainly deploy some protective elements like these that might stop such a problem in its tracks:

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About the author: Jonathan Hassell is author of Hardening Windows (Apress LP) and is a SearchWindowsSecurity.com site expert. Hassell is a systems administrator and IT consultant residing in Raleigh, N.C., who has extensive experience in networking technologies and Internet connectivity. He runs his own Web-hosting business, Enable Hosting. His previous book, RADIUS (O'Reilly & Associates), is a guide to implementing the RADIUS authentication protocol and overall network security.

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