MS Download: Server and Domain Isolation Using IPsec and Group Policy

Friday, 18 March 2005 by Michel Roth

Pretty extensive in-depth paper on securing a network using IPsec and Group Policies. Enjoy.

"Server and domain isolation provide a number of business benefits. Most importantly, it provides a layer of network security that can significantly reduce the threat of untrusted hosts accessing trusted domain members on an organization's internal network. Server and domain isolation can be an important strategy in the defense against virus propagation, internal hackers, employee misuse of technology assets, and information theft. In addition, it can be used to require domain membership of all clients that seek access to trusted resources, either clients or servers, so that they can be better managed by professional IT staff. Server and domain isolation can also be used either as a primary or an additional strategy for meeting data privacy or other protection requirements for data in network traffic, without modifying existing Microsoft Windows applications or deploying virtual private networking (VPN) tunneling hardware on the network."

Go to the download page here.