Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Security Documentation

Administrators can easily feel that documenting security settings and other configurations is important but that this documentation might lessen security mechanisms in the Windows Server 2012 environment. Nevertheless, documenting security mechanisms and corresponding configurations is vital to administration, maintenance, and any potential security compromise.

As with many of the documents about the network environment, they can do a lot of good for someone either externally or internally trying to gain unauthorized access. So, security documentation and many other forms of documentation, including network diagrams, configurations, and more, should be well guarded to minimize any security risk.

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