This document summarizes attack and intrusion prevention statistics from a university's firewall and discusses best practices for password security, secure network protocols, virtual private networks, and remote access security. It recommends using techniques like password managers and passphrases instead of sharing passwords. It also encourages securing plain text protocols like FTP, Telnet, HTTP with their secure counterparts like SFTP, SSH, HTTPS and using recognized certificate authorities for SSL certificates.

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18. Thank You Jonas Bowersock , Greg Parmer “ Until it goes missing, security is a boring obstacle to productivity in the minds of most.” -Greg Parmer