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Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers If a hacker gets that far into your network, names of servers obscure or not, are not going to stop them from getting what they want. IMHO!! ________________________________ From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers The only reason you might want to stay away from a naming convention is security. If a hacker gets on your network and can enumerate your servers they will see E2K3FE or SQL05CRM (for example) and know what they are hitting, thus making it easier for them to find what they are after. From: Rishi Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2008 14:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Naming convention for Servers I have a general question that I'd like to put up for discussion. I work for a medium size company with about 50 servers. Most of our domain controllers and exchange servers have random names....(These are not real) but something like George, Gertrude, etc... I am one of TWO system admins... or let's say 3 sys admins, including my supervisor. I have been pleading to start using a naming convention for the last several months as it is now getting confusing to remember which sever performs which function and which office it is located. (We have 7 different office locations throughout the country). Is there really a good reason to NOT have a naming convention? ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************ ************ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3024 (20080414) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3025 (20080414) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
