Incident Response Questions and Answers

Recent IT Questions

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How did I get a virus on my computer?

Do you hear that question or something similar too often? We're taking an informal survery on SearchSecurity.com to find out what the most common security-related user questions are. Results will be compiled into a question and answer tip that you will be able to post or handout to your users. ...

View Answer   |  Apr 6 2005  6:07 PM GMT
Administration, Disaster Recovery, Installation
asked by jwise410

  0 pts.

How to BVlock port on Pix 506 Firewall

I am new to networking. I want to know how can i block the port in the network through firewall & proxy. Anybody can provide me some documenation on PIX Firewall & its basics.Pl. send some inportant site address to expand my knowledge. Bye Pramod

View Answer   |  Apr 4 2005  6:17 AM GMT
Networking, Network security, Firewalls
asked by psharma1176

  0 pts.

Use of TFTP

Why is the use of TFTP discouraged on the network from a security perspective?

View Answer   |  Mar 31 2005  7:13 AM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by AaronD

  0 pts.

Help required in configuring ISA server 2000 firewall

Hi all, I have some queries related to Microsoft ISA server 2000. First of all I want to provide some info about my network. In my network most of the systems are using different flavor of MS windows and one computer (call it server1) is providing internet access to all the other computers...

View Answer   |  Mar 28 2005  4:34 AM GMT
Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by Iazher

  0 pts.

ID Theft and National Security

If it turns out, as I believe, that enemies of the United States are behind a lot of the major ID thefts in the US, that would mean that a lot of money is going to our enemies. Can we therefore surmise that those who mishandle our identity information, by means of their poor stewardship of our...

View Answer   |  Mar 12 2005  10:35 PM GMT
Security management, Disaster Recovery, Incident response
asked by InfoSafety

  60 pts.

Cisco ACS, PIX and VPN problem

I am trying to configure Cisco PIX to accept vpdn connections that will be authenticated by the Cisco ACS after looking up username and profile details in Active Directory. I am seeing failed attempts on the ACS - so I think the config is ok (below) access-list acl_in permit ip 10.xxx.xxx.0...

View Answer   |  Mar 9 2005  3:41 AM GMT
Networking, Networking services, DNS
asked by silks101

  0 pts.

How to do a Linux DMZ Intranet with Windows authentication?

I am designing a new network that has a DMZ containing Linux webservers and behind a firewall separating the DMZ a Windows backoffice . I want to run our company Intranet on the DMZ side using Linux but I want to limit access to employees both from the Internet and behind the firewall using...

View Answer   |  Mar 8 2005  11:58 AM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by Stephang

  0 pts.

Blocking P2P in SBS2003 network with no ISA Server

Hi All, I manage a small SBS2003 network, which doesn't have ISA server - i.e. the SBS box and all clients are wired via a switch to the ADSL router (Netgear DG384G). One of the users has been downloading MP3's from a P2P network and I want to block this sort of activity. Can I just block...

View Answer   |  Mar 6 2005  4:00 AM GMT
Networking, Network security, Firewalls
asked by rmrsystems

  0 pts.

CITRIX - How to Print outside LAN to OFF-Site printers

I need your help in this scenerio! what are your 2 cents? Goal: To go to a FULL Citrix Enviroment, Aiming at Thin clients, maybe linux based Off-site: Offices connect through the internet, they have DSL/T1's. Right now they are using Citrix successfully. If they have a printer over there and...

View Answer   |  Feb 9 2005  3:27 PM GMT
Security management, Administration, Network security
asked by ocarmona

  0 pts.

VPN and email

Hello, I set up a VPN on the office server and I am not allowing split tunneling. Now I am trying to set up a laptop to access the VPN, the Outlook Exchange serve, internet and email. Igot the laptop connecting to the VPN and set it up to use the proxy on the server so that the laptop can access...

View Answer   |  Jan 11 2005  4:24 PM GMT
Networking, Network security, Firewalls
asked by adambeazley

  0 pts.

DOS attack, DNS question

My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could...

View Answer   |  Jan 10 2005  6:07 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Disaster Recovery
asked by KJC4855

  0 pts.

outgoing https request being blocked

Hello, At my office I am noticing that a particular website which I used to be able to login to has done some upgrades and I no longer can access it. I have tried multiple browsers but I think the problem is in the ISA firewall on the server. The site starts as a http://blahblah:8088/blah then...

View Answer   |  Jan 4 2005  11:04 AM GMT
Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Networking services
asked by adambeazley

  0 pts.

Restricted access to win XP professional

I have a small WORKGROUP with windows 2000 server and 5 windows XP professional systems. All computers can read/write each other. Now I want to make one XP client secure/restric access, so that no other computer can access that except only other XP computer. How can I do that? Please advise. ...

View Answer   |  Dec 28 2004  2:48 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by BinooDas1234

  10 pts.

vpn through s-box firewall of checkpoint

i'm try to create a vpn from the internet to my "small buisness server 2003" that act as vpn server without any luck, if i try to connect to my server from the internal network it's work just fine, iv'e mapped the correct ports according to the microsoft article that say to forward port 1723 and 47...

View Answer   |  Dec 25 2004  6:01 PM GMT
Security management, Help Desk, Administration
asked by drorbenyosef

  5 pts.

Windows XP Home Connectivity Issue

My client has a small wireless network without a domain and primarily use Windows 2000 on their workstations. Recently, they purchased a couple of Sony laptops with Windows XP Home and I was able to connect these laptops to each other and the Windows 2000 PC. They recently added a Dell Dimension...

View Answer   |  Dec 17 2004  12:39 AM GMT
Tech support, Networking, Network security
asked by pkraja

  0 pts.

Information Security

1. Could you please send me a portal policy template as we are about to rollout same. Thanks 2. Please send me FTP policy template. I wil then customize it to our environment

View Answer   |  Dec 13 2004  6:53 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Security
asked by mofolo00

  0 pts.

Moving DNS outside

We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000...

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2004  8:28 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, E-mail applications
asked by Jerryn3

  5 pts.

Event viewer err Msg.

Good day, 1.In our organisation, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server with EXCHANGE , ISA server and DNS configured. but all the client pc's are given static ip address instead of dynamic ip. will this create any problem ? daily i'm receiving many application error logs.particularly 2...

View Answer   |  Nov 23 2004  2:38 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, Third-party services
asked by GiriPrasad

  0 pts.

Desktop or Personal Firewalls

1) How can an application detect that a Desktop or Personal Firewall is blocking a port or binary image? 2) Also, how can application get vendor specific information about the running firewall? Thanks for you help

View Answer   |  Nov 22 2004  9:01 AM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by PCSouth

  0 pts.

Question about IT management software-2

Hello, I am just wondering if anyone knows of some software avialable for IT departments, that say is accessable to users through a company intranet site where a user can go in and log an issue or problem with thier system which goes into a database, then once the issue is resolved the user can go...

View Answer   |  Oct 24 2004  10:47 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by Natethegreat

  0 pts.

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