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NAS and SAN configurations may present special challenges to hardening. For example, some NAS configurations used in a local area network (LAN) environment may have different file system access protections in place that will not interoperate with the host network’s OS and NOS. In this case, a server OS is not responsible for the permissions assigned to the data access, which may make configuration of access or integration of the access rules more complex. SAN configuration allows for intercommunication between the devices that are being used for the SAN, and thus freedom from much of the normal network traffic in the LAN, providing faster access. However, extra effort is initially required to create adequate access controls ...