Question

- What are the Windows Server threats and the security control?

Answer 1

Windows server threats are basically network threats to Windows server.Since the server is the core of the Distributed system that handles all the requests coming in and distribution of resources.

Therefore it is by the way most critical part of the distributed architecture.Therefore it is the target for most of the attack to control the whole system,Some of the threats are Man in the Middle attack,Phishing etc.But the most important and widespread kid of attack is the Denial of Service attack where the server is unable to process the requests due to overload of the system by malicious users.

There are many Security measures that are built into the Server Operating System of Windows such as the server firewall will not grant easy access to its ports unless the user is authenticated.

One of the security measures is to monitor the privilege access and limiting the time span for the administrator access.The other measure is the shielded VM where the VM will only be run on those host machine which are authenticated and critical process can be run inside these VMs which will be isolated from the outside world.