Protecting Microsoft Office SharePointServer against brute force and dictionary attacks
Using SharePoint, it's easy to share important documents with your team. You can specify object level permissions to limit limit access to information based on the users rights and role within the organization. But what happens if user credentials are stolen? You don't want to even think about it.
Protect your SharePoint server against brute force attacks, to prevent identity theft. Cyberarms offers the most easy to install software product to prevent brute force attacks to your systems. Using Cyberarms IDDS, the Windows event log is monitored for unsuccessful logins. When somebody fails too often to log in to your system, a firewall rule is created to completely block any communication to the suspect client computer based on its IP address. After a lock period, the communication path is established again.
This protection relies on the Windows authentication. If you are not sure if you will need this kind of protection, simply open your Windows event log viewer (run eventvwr.msc), navigate to the security log and search for Windows Event ID 4625. If you can find this event log id several times, it's likely that somebody tries to break in. You should install Cyberarms IDDS.
Protecting Microsoft SharePoint Server against brute force attacks with the Windows Base Security agent
This agent monitors the Windows Event Log for unsuccessful logins. Enable this agent to secure almost all applications which use Windows authentication. These are applications like Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Exchange Server, including Outlook Web Access, filesharing, and many other applications and services.
