Planning and setting up system security

This topic collection provides you with detailed information about planning, setting up, and using your system security.

Determining your company's system security is one of the most basic and most important decisions that you will make during the course of building your security plan. With system security you need to balance the need to safeguard your valuable information and the need of users to access that information to successfully make your company thrive. To strike this balance you must understand the specific needs and goals of your company's current direction but also be aware of future needs. Your security plan must protect your resources but also must be flexible enough to grow as your company grows.

Several tools exist that can aid you in creating, configuring, and managing your system-level security on your server. It is important to note that security does not end with protecting the server and managing access to assets that are stored on the system. A complete security implementation needs to include not only system level security, but also network level security and transaction level security. This topic focuses on system-level security.

Use this information to develop a personalized plan that fits your company's specific system security needs. After you complete the planning phase of your system security, you can set up system security by using the instructions provided in this information.