Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Chapter 19. Exchange Server Security Basics

• The Scope of Security

• Motivations of a Criminal Hacker

• How Hackers Work

• Physical Security

• Administrative Security

• SMTP Security

• Computer Viruses

• Junk E-Mail

• Security Tools Provided by Microsoft

• Summary

Security incidents, including hacking, virus attacks, spyware outbreaks, and identity theft, have rocked the computing world. Due to the e-mail server’s reliance on access to the outside world, e-mail has become a target for miscreants everywhere, who try to use this medium to gain access to an organization. As such, security has become so central to the administrator’s role that a large portion of this book is devoted to a discussion of it.

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