Maximum security recommendations – Dell PowerVault DP500 User Manual

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Security Recommendations

Ensure that you place appropriate restrictions on any Anonymous Logon
groups. To allow UNIX

®

users who do not have Windows user accounts to

access resources on a system running Windows, you must explicitly add the
Anonymous Logon group to the Everyone group and assign the Anonymous
Group appropriate permissions.

Maximum Security Recommendations

This section provides information about practices recommended for
maximum security on your storage server.

Allow no more than two administrators on the storage server.

Do not allow passwords that have no expiration date.

Enable Logon Success and Logon Failure auditing.

Disable unnecessary services.

Disabling unnecessary services also increases performance.

Remove the IISADMPWD virtual directory.

Enable application logging options for all web and FTP sites.

Ensure that Internet Explorer zones have secure settings for all users.

Use the storage server only for shares and services that are actively used.

Disable http sharing if http shares are not used.

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