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Best practice | Consideration | ||
Reduce the access of | Knowing which ports are open can help you assess the security | ||
external network | of your system or troubleshoot any connection issues. You | ||
connections to open | should close the ports that you do not use. | ||
ports on your local | For more information about the ports that are used by | ||
network. | |||
Entourage 2008, see Default ports for Entourage 2008 in the | |||
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Implement password- controlled access to the network.
Use the password protection features in Office 2008 for accessing documents.
For more information about security in Mac OS X, see the following topics in the Office 2008 Security section:
•Mac OS X passwords
•Mac OS X firewall
Word 2008 and Excel 2008 provide password protection features.
For more information about how to use the password protection features in Word 2008 and Excel 2008, see Configure document protection settings in Office 2008 in the Office 2008 Security section.
Use executable files | Executable files purchased from software manufacturers should |
with valid signatures. | always have a valid digital signature as part of a certificate |
| obtained from a certification authority. If a product does not |
| have a valid certificate of trust, we recommend that you do not |
| install it. However, if that is not an option, evaluate the product |
| before you distribute it to users to make sure that it performs |
| only as expected and does not intentionally or unintentionally |
| distribute a virus. |
