Wired –
more secure, lower maintenance and setup, initial cost is high.
Wireless –
less secure, higher maintenance and setup, initial cost is lower
Physical Security -
Wired networks have the highest security because for someone to access your
network they have to have physical access to the network; they have to be
present in your premises to get access to the network. Very visible to you
and/or your employees.
Wireless networks work on a Radio Frequency, there for anyone with the knowledge
and some equipment (not really sophisticated spy type stuff either) can tap into
your network’s radio frequency. Now connecting to your network is a deferent
problem, but they can see your network with a laptop and a wireless network
card.
Software Security -
There are different layers of security that software can provide for your
network.
Setting up a local network with a domain will provide you with medium to high
Security.
To gain access to a local workstation a user must be authenticated by the
domain controller.
Authentication is a user id created and maintained by the domain controller
and a password.
To increase security on a domain various things can be done, such as
enforcing password complexity, encrypting the password, insuring the password
is changed at a given frequency, and lock out of the user id after a certain
number of attempts that have failed..
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