Re: most avtive attack type

Much of what I am currently seeing are email based vectors,

as such, they rely either on holes in the client software which allows 
immediate execution of attachments, or the human factor.

Make sure you educate your users, or all the firewalling and patching in 
the world won't help you

regards,

Macca

first last wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering what the most common type of attack to expect to get hit 
> with over a network is.
> I will be protecting a MS based network.
>
>
> The other thing i was thinking is in this senerao what type of attacks 
> should you be watching out for?
>
> senerao: Small TCP/IP network (sub 6 pcs) All have the latest MS client 
> or server OSes fully patched.
> IPSec running as a firewall, all trafic monitered/logged, services 
> configured (and disabled)  1 Software router, 1 Hardware router 
> (firewall running on each) im thinking thats about it.
>
> Thanks for the help it is greatly apricated
>
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