How to Securing Microsoft Internet Explorer – IE
In this discussion, we will be showed how to securing Microsoft Internet Explorer ( also called IE ), one of the most popular web browsers, see Web Browser Wars, Popularity and Market Share. As we know that IE – Internet Explorer is a web browser integrated into the Microsoft Windows operating system and it’s bundled with every copy of Windows.
Securing Microsoft Internet Explorer – IE involves applying updates and patches, modifying a few setting and practicing intelligent surfing. Microsoft routinely release Internet Explorer with specific security patch, so it’s very important to configure the Microsoft Windows Update Automatically or visit the Microsoft Windows Update site regularly. The first step to configure Microsoft Internet Explore more secure is make sure IE up to date with currently release. We can update Microsoft IE by clicking the Windows Update menu item on IE’s Tools menu.
Internet Explorer - IE Update
The second step to tighten the Microsoft Internet Explorer is configure IE for secure surfing. We can do this through the Internet Options which is available to access through the Windows Control Panel or through the Internet Options menu item found under IE’s Tools menu of IE. To make sure the Microsoft Internet Explore more secure, optimize configure security of the Internet Explorer Options. In order to change settings / configurations for Internet Explorer, select Tools – Internet Options, then select the security tab.
Internet Explorer - IE Security Options
On this security tab, we will find a section at the top, lists of the various security zones. A security zones is a named collection of web sites that can be assigned a specific security level. IE uses zones to define the threat level a specific web site poses to the system : Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted sites and Restricted sites.
Internet zones is contains all sites not assigned to other zones. Local Intranet is contains all site within the local intranet or on the local system and operating system maintains this zones automatically. Trusted sites is contains only site manually added and only fully trusted sites. Restricted sites, contains only site manually added for any sites that are specifically not trusted or that are known to be malicious.
For each of these zones, we can select a custom level of protection by clicking the Custom Level button. The predefined security levels are offered on a slide controller with up to five settings with a description of the content : Low, Medium-Low, Medium, Medium-High, High.
We recommended the high security setting be applied for the Internet zones. By selecting the high security setting, several feature will be disabled. With this feature disables, the IE browser will be more secure. Finally, click the default level button and then drag the slider control up to high. We also recommended to see detail about How to Tighten Web Browser Security.
Mohamad Widodo
