anatomy of a windows server hack: can a hacker Infiltrate Your Network ?

The Ethical Hacker Network - Anatomy Of A Hack
prepare to be enlightened! the article linked here will explain much of the details on how you should be protecting your network.

Networks today are typically hard and crunchy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside.
This principle is critically important to understand. The fact is that if an attacker can gain a foothold onto the network, the rest of the network will usually fall like dominoes. Once inside, the most difficult part is often to figure out what to attack next and where to go for the really juicy bits of information. However, it does not have to be this way. With the proper techniques, we can achieve two crucial objectives