March 17, 2010 8:59 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
cyberattack,
cybersecurity,
cyberterrorism,
cyberthreats,
information security,
infosec awareness,
risk,
risk management,
security awareness,
threatThis is a very interesting call for papers (CFP). The questions of interest section raises some significant security concerns. Maybe you watched some of the US national cybersecurity drill in February. If not, check out my previous blog posting
February 18, 2010 7:36 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
Excel template,
gantt chart,
IT risk assessment,
log management,
maturity model,
Microsoft Excel,
project management,
risk assessment,
risk management,
risks,
templateI just came across an excellent resource for Microsoft Excel templates that are useful to IT professionals. The files can be found on the Excellence In Financial Management website.
Some of the useful ones that I have now...
November 11, 2009 6:31 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
Adobe,
certification,
Database,
information technology reference,
information technology tutorial,
IT education,
Linux,
MAC OS,
Macromedia,
Microsoft,
Microsoft education,
network technology education,
Networking,
programming,
sql,
technology education,
tutorial,
XMLI recently came across an excellent IT education resource that is free. It is the eTutorials.org website. According to the website it is a source of thousands online tutorials, useful tips, articles, and researched...
November 5, 2009 4:50 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
apache,
authentication,
certificates,
IIS,
information security,
risk,
risk management,
SSL,
tls,
vulnerability,
web servicesAs Michael Morisy of ITKE recently posted, New SSL security hole allows man-in-the-middle attacks, a new SSL...
October 21, 2009 1:20 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
Active Directory,
AD,
dba,
Development,
education,
IIS,
IT education,
Microsoft,
podcast,
Powershell,
SharePoint,
sql,
virtual machines,
Virtualization,
webcastI just came across an excellent resource for IT professionals working with Microsoft products. It is called RunAs Radio. There are weekly podcasts about topics of interest to those of us...
October 15, 2009 6:44 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
analysis,
education,
ethereal,
howto,
IT education,
Laura Chappell,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
network analysis,
Networking,
packet analysis,
packet capture,
performance monitoring,
protocol analysis,
reporting,
tcp/ip,
tools,
trace files,
training,
troubleshooting,
wiresharkLaura Chappel, the BitGirl, is at it again with another in her series of Wireshark Jumpstart webinars. The next one is called
October 7, 2009 6:38 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
bot,
botnet,
career,
information security,
information technology,
infosec,
IT,
network analysis,
professional,
Security,
service level,
support,
trojanIn America, October is the time when haunting, evil spirits and curses come to mind. Earlier today I posted a blog entry titled Can IT education bring an end to the...
October 7, 2009 5:34 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
career,
economics,
education,
information technology,
IT,
technologyWell, by my title I don't mean entirely end the recession, and especially not just through IT education alone. I was listening to the radio the other day and heard a snippet about an upcoming story. Unfortunately, I was unable to hear the entire story. However, the topic of the upcoming story...
September 14, 2009 1:49 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
information security,
Microsoft,
Microsoft support,
patches,
risk,
risk management,
support,
tcp,
tcp-ip,
tcp/ip,
threat,
vulnerability,
Windows,
windows 2000Last week was the September issue of Microsoft "patch Tuesday". The September 2009 Microsoft Security Bulletin lists a number of vulnerabilities. Microsoft held the