Secure Server Policies and Procedures for Novell NetWare Compliance

Servers are never 100 percent secure, especially straight out of the box. Certain steps need to be taken to ensure servers are made as secure as possible before placing them into production. There are five basic areas of security which need to be considered when securing servers. These areas include: 1. Physical Security 2. Server and Operating System Security 3. End User Access 4. Monitoring 5. Maintenance This paper outlines these areas and provides generalized policy guidelines to be used when security any server, regardless of the operating system. From these generalized policy guidelines, procedures specific to the Novell NetWare 6 operating system have been created and should be applied when securing a NetWare server running in a Windows environment. While these procedures are geared towards securing a server running NetWare 6, many of the steps may also apply to NetWare 4.x and 5.x operating systems.