Whether you’re planning your security strategy or responding to an urgent problem, our monthly articles, discoveries, virus news, hotfixes, and other resources will help you prevent security issues from taking over your life. In this issue -- learn how to use IPSec and Group Policy to add a layer of security to mission-critical servers -- learn the pros and cons of Windows XP's firewall and how to configure it -- and discover several different methods you can use to audit SQL Server Plus, answers to security-related Windows 2000 and Windows NT questions