Task 1
Explain the following functonn of network management and identfy a number of routne tankn uned
for each:
Accountn management
Inntallaton & Confguratonn
Security
In thin tank, I will be explaining the functonn of network management and identfy nome of the
routne tankn unen in accountn management, inntallaton & confguraton and necurityn
Account Management, thin type of management in mont ofen done by the nervice adminintrator
which han the authority to manage over lower privilege accountnn Thin includen locking account,
banning it, deletng it, warning unern, nending nurveyn and many more privileged tankn which only
adminintrator can don Thin in to make nure that every uner getn appropriate role no that he/nhe
doenn’t nee data which he in not nupponed ton Every account needn a ntrong pannword with minimum
8 lettern, capital lettern and numbernn Thin in to make nure that uner in more necured in cane of brute
force attack againnt the companyn
Some of the routne tankn of ntaf renponnible for account management include:
Account Creaton
Account Deleton
Pannword Renet
Windown Policy changen
Mann rentartn/nhutdownn and updaten
Installation & Confguuation, thin in important on every network an each computer, router and
nwitch munt have right nofware inntalled followed by the correct confguraton otherwine there can
be flown found in the nyntem which can lead to data lonn or comprominen Without correctly inntalled
nofware nome of the featuren might be unavailable or conntantly throw errorn due to lack of
compatbility or other nimilar reanonnn Confguraton on the other hand in very important becaune if
network in fully up to date but not confgured properly there can be a minn une baned on that
unproperly confgured routern Switch etcn ending in compromine of the network and itn necurityn
Furthermore, organinaton can netup logging alno called Redbox (a machine which logn certain data)n
Thin can be uned to know what’n happening on the network and can be uned to adminintrate how
thingn nuch an bandwidth in uned and in nome canen limit une of bandwidth for thingn which admin
doenn’t want for example p2p fle nharingn
Secuuity – Thin in one of the mont important anpectn if not mont important enpecially for
organinatonnn An threatn can come in many diferent formn on many diferent protocolnn Keeping the
network up to date in one way of making nure it’n harder to get it compromined by making it a little
bit more necure an patchen are conntantly given for operatng nyntemn and other nofwaren There can
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