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E.3 Placing Wizard DXS - Digital alongside the firewall
Wizard DXS - Digital is built from the ground-up to be secure. It employs a sophisticated 128bit public/private key system that has
been rigorously analysed and found to be highly secure. Therefore, you can position the Wizard DXS - Digital alongside the
firewall and control a computer that is also IP connected within the local network.
IMPORTANT: If you make the Wizard DXS - Digital accessible from the public Internet, care should be taken to ensure that the
maximum security available is activated. You are strongly advised to enable encryption and use a strong password. Security may
be further improved by restricting client IP addresses, using a non-standard port number for access.
Ensuring sufficient security
The security capabilities offered by the Wizard DXS - Digital are only truly effective when they are correctly used. A weak
password or unencrypted link can cause security loopholes and opportunities for potential intruders. For network links in general
and direct Internet connections in particular, you should carefully consider and implement the following:
• Ensure that
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• Ensure that you have selected
with at least 8 characters and a mixture of upper and lower case and
numeric characters plus a special character.
• Reserve the admin password for administration use only and use a non-admin user profile for day-to-day access.
• Use the latest Secure VNC viewer (this has more in-built security than is available with the Java viewer).
• Use non-standard
• Restrict the range of IP addresses that are allowed to access the Wizard DXS - Digital to only those that you will need to use.
• Do NOT Force VNC protocol 3.3.
• Ensure that the computer accessing the Wizard DXS - Digital is clean of viruses and spyware and has up-to-date firewall and
anti-virus software loaded that is appropriately configured.
• Avoid accessing the Wizard DXS - Digital from public computers.
