Get expert guidance to assess and help improve the security of your Exchange Server 2003 messaging systems. From risk assessment to implementation and auditing procedures, get critical guidance to help enhance the security of your messaging infrastructure. Written by a network security expert who works closely with the Microsoft Exchange Server team, this guide delivers essential information and advice to help protect your clients, servers, and communications channels. Discover how to use the security features available in the Exchange and Microsoft Windows environments to harden the underlying system configuration and create multiple layers of defense against viruses, worms, and other threats—helping you improve messaging integrity over e-mail and the Internet.

Discover how to:

Identify and assess threats and risks to your messaging systems
Install and configure Exchange to address security considerations
Choose appropriate security-related algorithms and protocols
Automate patch distribution and service-pack updates
Implement anti-spam features and content-filtering tools
Deploy multiple layers of virus defense—desktop, perimeter, and server
Employ system-monitoring and intrusion-detection tools and techniques
Create an Exchange-ready PKI and deploy Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web Access
Use POP and IMAP to enhance control of mailbox access
NEW—Get a list of questions to employ when performing a security audit
NEW—Implement security measures for roaming users and mobile devices
NEW—Review messaging-related legal issues in a chapter from former law professor William J. Friedman