Welcome to the Pen Testing firm of Bodgit and Run we hope yo

Welcome to the Pen Testing firm of Bodgit and Run, we hope you will find your work with our company both entertaining (for you) and profitable (for us). To this end we have a client who wants us to do a risk assessment on one of his machines… Could you please produce a 2 page report outlining the potential risks and make suggestions for mitigation where possible for the following operating system/application Your Operating System/Application is – Exchange Server 2013

Solution

Microsoft exchange 2013 server has different features and it overcomes previous version issues. Risk assessment is a very important part of computer security planning. No plan of action can be put into place before a risk assessment has been performed. The risk assessment provides a baseline for implementing security plans to protect assets against various threats. There are three basic questions one needs to ask in order to improve the security of a system.

Risk mitigation mainly involves providing solution to risk. The risks can be treated in different ways, each of which may require different resources at different times but for selecting the best solution is not an easy task. However, the high rate of failures in IT projects shows the unsuccessfulness of the activities of risk mitigation.

In risk assesmnet first identify the risk.

Identify the control plans methods and tools.

What is the risk how it impact the system.

Exchange server supports Virtualization and all server roles.

It wroks on any browser or devise.

Allows your users to work better together on teams and projects

Protects your sensitive data and informs users of internal compliance policies

“Unified Messaging” lets users receive voice mail, email, and faxes in their mailboxes.

In 2013 version it improves integration with sharepoint.

Supports large disk files.

Data loss prevention is excellent feature offered by 2013e server.

Searching or indexing a file is very fast comparative wit h past versions.

Public folders are now stored in mailbox databases and can take advantage of Database Availability Groups for replication and high availability.