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Sample social networking policy
IT Pro Rick Vanover has crafted a sample social networking policy that you can customize to fit the needs of your organization. As sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Faceb...
Company: Rick Vanover
Date: June 2009 |
Rick Vanover |
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10 things you should know about developing an identity management system
Everyone knows they should securely manage their user-account information, but what about administrative accounts? They're important, so why aren't they under the same mi...
Company: Michael Kassner
Date: June 2009 |
Michael Kassner |
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10 ways to avoid viruses and spyware
To have a fighting chance against today's rampant security threats, end users have to be informed and proactive. Here are some practical guidelines they can follow to min...
Company: Erik Eckel
Date: June 2009 |
Erik Eckel |
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E-mail links and attachments: Help stop malware from spreading
Teach your users the basics about the prevention of malware with this handy PowerPoint presentation. Security blogger Michael Kassner presents common-sense tips on how to...
Company: Michael Kassner
Date: June 2009 |
Michael Kassner |
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End-user password security
Protecting your organization's important data starts with password security best practices. Use this Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to teach your users how to create s...
Company: TechRepublic.com
Date: June 2009 |
TechRepublic.com |
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10 ways to secure the Apple iPhone
Learn about the many options you can leverage to increase security of the Apple iPhone. This download includes a PowerPoint presentation and a PDF version of this ...
Company: Michael Kassner
Date: June 2009 |
Michael Kassner |
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10 ways to avoid IT security breaches
Completely eliminating security breaches may be an impossible task -- but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do everything possible to thwart attackers. Michael Kassner shar...
Company: Michael Kassner
Date: June 2009 |
Michael Kassner |
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How do I... Block access to Web sites with ProCon Latte?
There are times when you need to be able to block access to certain Web sites. There are plenty of applications out there that will allow you to control browsing via w...
Company: Jack Wallen
Date: May 2009 |
Jack Wallen |
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10 tips for secure computer disposal
If you're in charge of IT resources at an organization with more than a handful of users, you might need this advice for secure equipment disposal.This download i...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: April 2009 |
Chad Perrin |
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Using encrypted filesystems with Linux Logical Volume Manager
Vincent Danen favors the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for easy partitioning in Linux and tells you how to take advantage of its volume encryption feature. ...
Company: Vincent Danen
Date: April 2009 |
Vincent Danen |
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10 free security tools that actually work
Plenty of solid products are available to help you protect your system -- and some of them don't cost a dime. Here's a list of some of the most popular and effective free...
Company: Susan Harkins
Date: March 2009 |
Susan Harkins |
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10 security threats to watch out for in 2009
Along with the explosion of new technologies, user habits, and social practices comes the inevitable wave of new security threats. Deb Shinder examines emerging vulnerabi...
Company: Deb Shinder
Date: March 2009 |
Deb Shinder |
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10 ways to protect yourself when you leave a job
Employers aren't the only ones who have to look after security when an employee leaves. If that departing employee is you, make sure you pay attention to threats to your ...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: March 2009 |
Chad Perrin |
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10 ways to protect your company from employee transition risks
Employment transition is an often overlooked danger to company security. Make sure you have policies and procedures in place that will protect your business from security...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: February 2009 |
Chad Perrin |
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Get started with the security tool OSSEC
Of the many open source security tools out there, Vincent Danen singles out OSSEC as a solid, cross-platform tool that provides intrusion detection techniques such as log...
Company: Vincent Danen
Date: January 2009 |
Vincent Danen |
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10 security tips for Microsoft Windows XP
Installing Windows XP is only the first step to using it. Chad Perrin advises these additional measures to ensure that your XP systems are protected from proliferating se...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: December 2008 |
Chad Perrin |
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10+ reasons to treat network security like home security
Strategies for effectively securing your network map pretty closely to those for securing your home. Chad Perrin looks at the parallels and offers a takeaway for each poi...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: October 2008 |
Chad Perrin |
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How to secure your Windows computer and protect your privacy with free software
This guide from Howard Fosdick explains many of the threats to your security and privacy you may encounter when you use Microsoft Windows. It describes these concerns ...
Company: Howard Fosdick
Date: October 2008 |
Howard Fosdick |
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How do I... Encrypt files with GPG4Win?
File encryption has been a key component to safe business practices for a long time. Whether it is keeping the prying eyes of competitors out of your critical product ...
Company: Jack Wallen
Date: September 2008 |
Jack Wallen |
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How do I... Scan a hard drive for sensitive data with Spider?
There are many reasons why you would want to do a thorough scan on a PC for specific data. However, large capacity hard drives can be difficult to scan without the rig...
Company: Jack Wallen
Date: August 2008 |
Jack Wallen |
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10 common security mistakes that should never be made
There's no shortage of difficult security challenges -- so why take chances and overlook the easy stuff? Chad Perrin describes some of the worst (and all too common) secu...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: August 2008 |
Chad Perrin |
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Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3
The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wir...
Company: Vincent Danen
Date: August 2008 |
Vincent Danen |
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Track a user's Internet Explorer History with IEHistoryView
Tracking a user's browsing history can be both an expensive and a daunting task, especially if you're a one-man shop in a small company. IEHistoryView from NirSoft is ...
Company: Wally Bahny
Date: July 2008 |
Wally Bahny |
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Chroot users with OpenSSH: An easier way to confine users to their home directories
With the release of OpenSSH 4.9p1, you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories or give them ac...
Company: Vincent Danen
Date: June 2008 |
Vincent Danen |
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Disable USB storage under OS X or Windows
USB drives are convenient and efficient, but they also represent a serious security risk -- so it's not surprising that some organizations want them out of the picture. J...
Company: Justin Fielding
Date: May 2008 |
Justin Fielding |
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Using the openssl command-line program
OpenSSL can be used to create, request, sign, and revoke certificates and can also be used to perform other cryptographic operations such as creating hashes for files, te...
Company: Vincent Danen
Date: April 2008 |
Vincent Danen |
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Try the New School approach to effective security spending
CIOs, IT managers, and security specialists all face difficult questions about security spending. This sample chapter from The New School of Information Security e...
Company: Addison-Wesley
Date: April 2008 |
Addison-Wesley |
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10 Wi-Fi security tips for road warriors
Road warriors have to be creative. Besides their normal work, they are asked to maintain an almost continuous electronic presence while away from their office or home -- ...
Company: Michael Kassner
Date: April 2008 |
Michael Kassner |
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10 things you should do to protect yourself on a public computer
Most of us will occasionally have to use a public computer for one reason or another. Maybe it's an emergency situation (your own computer crashes or you get caught witho...
Company: Kris Littlejohn
Date: March 2008 |
Kris Littlejohn |
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10 things you should do to prepare for the audit boogeyman
An audit can be a harrowing exercise, particularly if your organization is flying by the seat of its pants. The more time you can invest in defining policies and procedur...
Company: Ramon Padilla
Date: March 2008 |
Ramon Padilla |
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How do I... Reject alpha characters in a SQL Server character column?
Enforcing your data's integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data fr...
Company: Susan Harkins
Date: January 2008 |
Susan Harkins |
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The TechRepublic Spyware Removal Checklist
Regardless of size, everyone from small businesses to enterprise organizations must battle the associated Spyware risks that include key trackers, Web page redirectors...
Company: Erik Eckel
Date: January 2008 |
Erik Eckel |
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Norton AntiVirus 2008:The Right Tool for the Job?
Windows computers require protection from viruses, spyware programs, and rootkits -- and that means you need software that can monitor a system for infections, continuall...
Company: Erik Eckel
Date: January 2008 |
Erik Eckel |
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How do I... Remote desktop to a Windows XP PC from Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista adds several layers of system security above and beyond what was used in Windows XP. In general, that is a good thing. However, those added lay...
Company: Mark W. Kaelin
Date: January 2008 |
Mark W. Kaelin |
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10 things you should do to secure every general-purpose operating system
There are key considerations for system security that apply no matter which general-purpose operating system platform you happen to be using. As Chad Perrin explains, you...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: December 2007 |
Chad Perrin |
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10 ways to reduce insider security risks
Insiders pose the top corporate security threat today. Not surprisingly, internal employees who are authorized to access company systems are most likely to be linked to f...
Company: Connie Kerr
Date: November 2007 |
Connie Kerr |
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Boost security by disabling these 10 Windows XP services
As long as Microsoft Windows has been a network-capable operating system, it has come with quite a few services turned on by default. So it's a good idea for security-con...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: November 2007 |
Chad Perrin |
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Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of your data with these encryption tools
The days of totally private networks are long gone. Today, there is no way to avoid sending your business data outside of your network. Nor would you want to; shari...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: October 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Investigate attacks against your network with these open-source forensic tools
Even if you do everything right to secure your network, including implement security measures properly and maintain them vigilantly, no network is 100% secure. So, wh...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: October 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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10 ways to secure borderless networks
Company networks are undergoing de-perimeterization, as online collaboration with partners, customers, telecommuters, and others outside the physical LAN becomes more and...
Company: Deb Shinder
Date: October 2007 |
Deb Shinder |
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