IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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S 2.68 Implementation of security checks by the
peer-to-peer network users
Initiation responsibility: Head of IT Section, IT Security Management
Implementation responsibility: IT-user
As the major security measures in a Peer-to-Peer network can only be checked
on a decentralised basis, the users are responsible for implementing security
checks of this kind. The following checks should thus be carried out by the
users at appropriate intervals:
- Checking active connections: Using the program Network Monitor (in the
program group NETWORK) under WfW, it is possible to check which
computer currently has access to the user's own computer and what the
nature of this access is. The program can be optionally installed in the
program group ACCESSORIES, sub-menu SYSTEM PROGRAMS under
Windows 95, or the control panel option "Server" under Windows NT.
For example:
The connections from the computer "MUSTER" are displayed. The icons have
the following meaning:
output file
Access for writing purposes to the directory INFOS
Access for reading purposes to the directory TEMP
Access to the printer with the name HP$
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A connection was created to your output file
Access to the page with the name PAGE12 of your
In the event that unauthorised access by a computer to a directory or the
printer is displayed, share is to be withdrawn. Any pending printing jobs
can be interrupted using the print manager. The various actions are
documented in the event protocol (see next illustration). In the event of