Re: securing a segment of a network

[dwg5901 () fhda edu]

It sounds like you need a policy boundary at a finer granularity than the
domain -- could it be at the OU level?  (If you haven't migrated to AD
yet, maybe it's time to consider it?)

David Gillett, CISSP, MCSE


> Im facing a problem here in my network. Due to an auditory, some years
> ago I had physically split my network in 2, with 2 windows domains. One
> network is for administrative tasks: accoutning, etc. The second, for
> the educational side of my office.
> Here is the problem. When we were ordered to do so, we didnt took into
> cosideration that we didnt and  we would never have the resources to
> keep 2 domains operating with some decent reliability. For example, I
> just have one domain controller for each domain. I do not have and I
> wont be allowed to buy more domain controllers. When one domain
> controller breaks, or windows fails (yes, I have seen Windows 2000
> shutdown and never wake up again without any cause) the whole domain is
> lost.
> So, Im planning to join both domains in a single one, but I need some
> sort of protection for the PCs running accounting tasks so I can please
> the future auditors.  what can you recommend?
>
>
>
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