Windows Server 2016 Storage Servers

How Windows Server 2016 Benefits Enterprises

Just Enough Administration and Just-in-Time Administration help protect admin credentials by making sure that attackers are not able to access critical data. Even in the case where admin credentials are compromised, Credential Guard stop admin credentials from being stolen by Pass-the-Ticket and Pass-the-Hash attacks.

With Device Guard only permitted binaries are executed. Control Flow Guard protects against classes of memory corruption attacks, while Windows Defender protects against recognised weaknesses without server roles being impacted (e.g. Web Servers).

Security auditing can be optimised with Enhanced Logging for threat detection to speedily identify malicious behaviour.

With Windows Server 2016 you can virtualise without compromising security. VMs are encrypted using BitLocker, have a virtual TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and will only be able to run approved hosts in the fabric. Each and every host has to attest to its security health due to Host Guardian Service before Shielded Virtual Machines will boot or migrate.

Windows Server 2016 offers enhanced flexibility and scalability for networks and workloads. The Network Controller (and virtual switch) make sure that address space, load balancer, security policies and appliances move with the VM as it moves from one location to another (including from a virtual to a physical network).

Virtual workloads can be isolated and protected with the Shielded Virtual Machines feature. This feature encrypts virtual machines and makes sue that they will only run on hosts that have been approved via the Host Guardian Service.

Multiple Layers of Security

In the current business landscape, cyberattacks have become a very regular occurrence. Companies of all sizes and backgrounds have become targets and victims. Security breaches are costly and the financial damages caused by these breaches is continuing to rise. These breaches also lead to serious public embarrassment for the companies and agencies that fail to protect both themselves and their customers.

Firewalls and anti-malware tools are now not enough to keep potential threats at bay. These threats are forever evolving and as stakes continue to rise, every organisation should be using more advanced ways of detecting danger and preventing attacks.

A well-structured and effective security requires a number of security layers that detect issues and allow for lightning quick response to any indication of the infrastructure becoming compromised. Window Server 2016 is placed at a very strategic layer in the infrastructure of an organisation.

Standard attacker toolkits are disrupted and vulnerable targets are isolated with help from protection at the identity, OS and virtualisation layers in Windows Server 2016.

Windows Server 2016 security features aid in slowing down the progress of attackers within the environment through protecting administrator credentials and warn administrators to malicious and dangerous activity.

This essentially means that even if an attacker was to infiltrate an organisations environment, the security of this operating system can detect the breach and slow it down or stop it in its tracks entirely.