Are You Really Protected?
The threat landscape is evolving and changing more rapidly than many traditional security companies can cope with - especially given that the bulk of threats discovered have been developed and orchestrated by highly sophisticated groups with a focus on financial gain.
Date: 2007-12-06
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Creating an effective company intranet just got easy with WebOffice. Share information and collaborate with co-workers, partners and clients - anywhere in the world.
Date: 2007-12-05
We Need A More Flexible Sense Of Ethics In Information Security
One of my greatest mentors in information security is the CISO of a major educational institution; he has served the information security community well, with honor and with distinction over his many years in information security.
Date: 2007-11-08
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Date: 2007-11-07
Talking With Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer Simo Sorce
Simo Sorce is the Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer, hired by Red Hat in 2007 where he is a Senior Software Engineer, maintainer of Samba and expert on Windows Integration and Identity Management.
Date: 2007-10-25
Access Your PC Remotely With WebEx!
WebEx PCNow is the easy way to use your PC from anywhere in the world. Now you can work from home, telecommute, or even get the file you left on your office PC quickly and easily.
Date: 2007-10-24
SharePoint: Back Door Storage Play
We've been a SharePoint user, of sorts anyway, since the original beta. I didn't think much of it, to be honest, as eventually it became a giant pain in the rump just like every other tree oriented file system - once you put a zillion things in it, and you can't find anything.
Date: 2007-10-19
Lazy DNS
I had a call this morning from a customer who wanted me to come down because their mail server was broken. They had experienced an ISP outage, which subsequently was fixed, but their mail server wasn't getting anything still.
Date: 2007-10-04
Apache Geronimo Should Be Included In BEA's Future
I just read that Carl Icahn owns a 8.5% stake, worth $426.5M, in BEA. He wants to see BEA sold in order to maximize shareholder value. While I can understand this point of view, I'd like to offer another option.
Date: 2007-09-20
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Date: 2007-09-18
Will Solaris Go After Low Hanging Fruit?
There's more noise about Solaris competing with Linux over at slashdot. I can understand the argument that Sun should direct their efforts to Linux. You know, Peace, Love, Linux.
Date: 2007-09-06
Server & Data Center Energy Efficiency
Slashdot reported that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivered a study on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency. Here is the 13 page summary and the full (133 pg) report.
Date: 2007-08-09
Do You Trust Your Vendor?
One of the things that I get to do in my new job with VMC is find out what people's pain points are and as I was doing research yesterday on vendors, what has been traditionally outsourced, and who has written authoritatively on it some interesting trends show up in the list.
Date: 2007-07-19
Do You Really Need A Domain Controller?
Let's start out with the good points: there are advantages to a Microsoft Domain Controller model. Centralized user control, fine grained resource access control: these are often useful and very helpful.
Date: 2007-07-10
Ops Mgr 2007: Certificate-based Authorization Across Internet
Certificate-based authorization scenarios in Operations Manager 2007 are something we've tested and documented, but there is one question that's been raised a few times we have yet to address: What if I assign a certificate to a server in a network across the Internet that has an FQDN that cannot be resolved by the management server?
Date: 2007-06-28
An Introduction to Network Forensics
Have you ever heard of network forensics? Not everyone has but the meaning is actually very important. It basically means the recording, analyzing, and capturing of events on a network in order to determine how and why attacks on security occurred as well as other problems.
Date: 2007-06-14
3 Methods of Linux System Administration
When you are a new Linux user needing to get Linux training, it is often confusing to decide what to focus on.
Should you learn how to use Linux for just one Linux distribution (a.k.a. version, distro)?
Date: 2007-05-31
The 802.1X Supplicant Initiative
First let me state that those are words I barely understand, and until recently have never even used the word "supplicant", correctly or otherwise. Having said that, kudos to Jon Oltsik for seeing a wrong in the world of IT and doing something about it.
Date: 2007-05-17
We Don't Need An Information Security Industry
As much as I respect Bruce Schneier, and usually follow what he says with few if any questions, I think what he is missing with his speech in London is the Human Element.
Date: 2007-04-30
Fortinet Firewall Transparent Mode
The Fortinet 50A is a firewall router designed for 10 users or less (this is an older model, now replaced by the 50B). Out of the box, it is configured as a NAT DHCP device at 192.168.1.99. I simply plugged my Mac Powerbook into the Fortinet's "internal" port, refreshed my TCP/IP, and was able to use a browser to connect to the firewwall.
Date: 2007-04-19
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Date: 2007-04-18
Security Pen Testing - Google Hacking
If you are a security pen tester, you should know about the Google Hacking Database over at Johnny I Hack Stuff. There are a number of sites that deal with search engines and using them to discover vulnerabilities in systems and services that the site owners might not even be aware of.
Date: 2007-04-12
Information Security Leaders
This was written soon after having listened to both the CISO of Cisco, and one of the primary think tank leaders from Gartner Group in December of 2005. The idea of the conversations was that business and IT need to merge was radical a year and a half ago, now we are much more accepting of the idea.
Date: 2007-04-05
The Passive Interface Command And OSPF
To pass the BSCI exam and become a CCNP, you have to be aware of the proper use of passive interfaces. You learned about passive interfaces in your CCNA studies, but here we'll review the basic concept and clear up one misconception regarding passive interfaces and OSPF.
Date: 2007-03-23
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Date: 2007-03-22
IGRP And Equal Cost Load Balancing
To pass the CCNA exam, you've got to know the role of the bandwidth command with IGRP and EIGRP and when to use it. In this tutorial, we'll configure IGRP over a frame relay hub-and-spoke network using the following networks...
Date: 2007-03-05
DNS And The IP Name-Server Command
DNS behaviors of a Cisco router are important topics for both the CCNA exam and real-world production networks, and you probably didn't know there were so many DNS details before you began studying for the exam!
Date: 2007-02-16
The Linux Hosting Expert
Since our founding, Rackspace has supported and promoted the Open Source community working closely with Red Hat to develop and support unparalleled Linux hosting solutions. With more than 80 Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs), we're home to more in-house Linux expertise than any other provider in the world.
Date: 2007-02-15
Why Do We Need Private Address Ranges?
When you're studying to pass the CCNA, you're introduced to "private addresses", the address ranges formally referred to as RFC 1918 Private Addresses. (RFC stands for Request For Comment; to see a typical RFC, just put that term in your favorite search engine.)
Date: 2007-02-09
Download the ePolicy Best Practices Guide
This manual from The ePolicy Institute and St. Bernard Software, Inc., is an invaluable tool for IT and HR professionals who need to establish rules and guidelines for electronic communications at their organizations. This clear and thorough document gives you the dos and don'ts of ePolicy best practices and covers the electronic activities that can seriously affect your organization including the Internet, Instant Messaging (IM), Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and email.
Date: 2007-02-08
Different Way To Monitor Your Terminal Server Environment
In the past I have discussed the Citrix Resource manager and Windows Performance monitor as ways of troubleshooting your environment. There is another tool that's free from Microsoft that might aid you in future monitoring and troubleshooting, it has certainly helped me. It's called the Server Performance Advisor.
Date: 2007-02-01
Configuring Standard Access Lists
Access Control Lists (ACLs) allow a router to permit or deny packets based on a variety of criteria. The ACL is configured in global mode, but is applied at the interface level.
Date: 2007-01-19
The Hidden Dangers of Internet Access
Spyware, malware, phishing and pharming attacks
will not be going away. In fact, these sorts of applications will likely become
even more sophisticated.
Date: 2007-01-18
Outsourcing The Grunge Work
Interesting ideas floating around today, the basic premise is that people are earning a lot of money to build and tear down ACL's, manage routers, switches, firewalls, and other general day to day maintenance.
Date: 2007-01-11
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