Windows Server 2008 TCP IP Hardening

Security can be a daunting task, but understanding how security works at a very low level on the system is a key to successful system hardening. This is the first part in the video series on winsrvtuts.com on TCP / IP protocol stack hardening. This first video will give you an overview of the security vulnerabilities that are present with in the TCP / IP security stack and how nefarious persons could attempt to exploit them. In the following videos we will show how to use the registry to harden the TCP / IP protocol stack in a Windows 2008 environment.


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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Windows Server 2008
• TCP IP
• Hardening
• Overview

[mnemonyss]

Just wanted to give you a specific reference for some more updated information:

blogs.technet.com/b/netro/arch­ive/2010/08/30/tcp-ip-stack-ha­rdening-in-operating-systems-s­tarting-with-windows-vista.asp­x

[sma92878]

@mnemonyss

I actually make mention that the Symantec paper is older, and on the blog post I have links to 2 more recent articles from Microsoft.

1. Next Generation TCP/IP Stack in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

2. TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

I would agree there's not enough information available atm

[sma92878]

@mnemonyss

for some reason it wont let me post the links here but they are on the website in the 2nd article in this series.

[mnemonyss]

The document from Symantec that you reference was written much earlier than 2010 as it still references the Windows 2000 operating system. When you take into account how much technology has advanced and the size of the pipes and amount of resources servers have today, they handle syn-attacks much better than they did previously.

We really need to reference updated material specifically for Windows 2008 servers - which isn't in abundance today.

[imsun]

Thanks a whole lot, spectacular sessions.

Imsun, network admin

[Ebikoner0815]

Thank's for this interesting video :-)