Christopher Ammen

CISS 21
6/6/14
Roche
Setting up IPSec to secure your network
IPSec is a protocol suite used to secure communications within a network.
IPSec can greatly increase the security of your home net or any small network.
IPSec secures your network by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication
session. By creating a mutual authentication at the beginning of the session, a link is established
and a cryptographic key is shared between the hosts. You can also use IPSec to communicate
between network-to-network and from a network-to-host.
Here are the steps to set up IPSec:
o On the first computer, create a text file and type until you have at least 100 characters.
Save this file to a USB or any other portable drive.
o Open the Local Security Policy, Right Click the IP Security Policies on Local Computer and
select Create IP Security Policy
o Name your policy anything you like such as Home Secured and leave the Activate the
default response rule checked.
o Select the Use this string to protect and copy your preshared file key into the space.
o Uncheck Edit Properties and select Finish.
IPSec can now be set up by following the same procedures on the other computers