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Regardless of what you are doing with the computer, all user accounts should have a Strong Password
The definition of a 'Strong' password is:
- Be at least 12 characters long (However, more is better)
- Case sensitive (Meaning should have UPPER and lower case letters)
- Contains a mixture of letters and numbers
- Contains symbols (Such as #, ! and so forth...)
- Does not use words found in any dictionary (Such as names or words)
- Does not use letters or numbers in sequence or in repeated fashion (Like 1111, 1234, abcd)
- Using a password that contains public knowledge information related to you (Such as your address and the like.)
(Reference: Password Management on UCSB Information Security)
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Any services that are meant for research or testing should be restricted to the campus' network, which is 128.111.0.0/16 (128.111.0.0-128.111.254.254)
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Any application or service that uses the Network is considered 'vulnerable' as some services like Hadoop, mysql and such are designed for network interaction beyond itself and often times not secured unless the user of the system proactively sets up security. Always assume anything installed onto the system is not secure and you must secure it by all means possible. |
Firewalls should be set to the Campus network for Allow and the default action for anything else to Drop or Reject to avoid ease of compromise.
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While this may seem to be an inconvenience for you access wise, it is much less of an inconvenience that than to have your system compromised and cut off due to it being an issue or worse, requiring you to rebuild the system due to it being hijacked and encrypted.
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