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Proactive Security: Analyzing Exchange Security

Microsoft Exchange is the most popular e-mail server application on the market. Unfortunately, when implementing an Exchange server, security is often overlooked. There are a lot of considerations when thinking about Exchange Security. One of the best places to start is by running the Baseline Security Analyzer. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx. A few other quick tips include running the Exchange Best Practices analyzer (link), requiring SSL connections for Outlook Web Access (link), using Kerberos authentication rather than the NTLM (link),