Security

You could be providing online banking services, extranet services to clients or suppliers or providing information to selected people through your Intranet. Whatever your web environment, it needs to be secure. At Jingle Infotech Ltd., we help you create and implement security policies that protect information from unauthorised access.

FTP "file" Transfers
If you allow files to both be written to and read from by anonymous users, hackers will find those accounts and use them to transfer MP3 files, and porn.

Spam Relay
If you allow the "relay" feature on SMTP servers, spammers will find your server and use it to forward spam through (to hide themselves and also take advantage of your higher-speed connection).

User Accounts
If you allow user accounts that are publically available, then hackers will use them for their nefarious purposes, such as running IRC "bots".

Smurf Amplifiers
If you do not adjust your subnet masks and visible services, hackers will attempt to use your site as a "smurf" or "fraggle" amplifier to flood other victims on the net.

Sniffed Passwords
If you allow incoming protocols with clear-text passwords (Telnet, POP, IMAP, FTP, etc.), then these passwords will occasionally be "sniffed" off the wire and used by hackers to break into accounts.

Stolen Passwords
No matter what you do, there is a good chance that users accounts will be compromised and used to enter your network.

Website Defaults
If you put a web server on the Internet, you must carefully remove all "defaults", "samples", and "CGI scripts" or hackers will at minimum deface web pages or compromise the machine.