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Group Policy Management

Has anyone looked into Group Policy Management products (outisde of the functionality provided by Microsoft's Active Directory)? I'm trying to choose a product, and wanted to compare based on what current users thought (rather than what the sales departments tell me). The products I've been able...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2005  2:54 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by techSpaght

  0 pts.

AOL Spammer IP Identification

Concerning the ever increasing amount of received spam, to battle this I have a program with which I can extract the IP address from the sender for reporting purposes, however, I have been receiving an increasing amount from AOL proxy server for which I cannot aquire the senders IP address. Is...

View Answer   |  Nov 19 2005  11:56 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by Eyecatcher55

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SPAM

I am running Exchange 2003 and Win2k3 servers. we get a ton of spam, and I want to stop it. What in your opinion are the best SPAM softwares and why? (such as strong points and weak points) let's hear it....

View Answer   |  Nov 10 2005  11:11 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Networking
asked by TheVyrys

  0 pts.

layer 2 & layer 3 switch

Hi All, what is the basic difference between layer 2 & layer 3 switch. how can configure layer 2 & layer3 managable switch

View Answer   |  Nov 10 2005  6:50 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by psharma1176

  0 pts.

Company policies on protecting personal data

I'd like to know what policies other companies have in place to protect personal data of employees, customers, etc.(data such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and the like) For example, is encryption required for transfer outside the company? How about inside the company? It is...

asked by copleydt

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regarding vpn

hi , i have to do project in vpn using l2tp.i have to test it between two linux machines. can anyone give me the steps to do that ? It will very useful for me if u give the websites regarding to that. thanks in advance. with regards, Nirmala.

View Answer   |  Nov 6 2005  10:08 PM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by nirmala2005

  0 pts.

Pix blocks Microsoft Office Communicator

We are running Cisco VPN (3000 headend) clients (4.7.0) through a Cisco Pix 515 (6.3). Our VPN clients are unable to connect to Windows Live Commnications Server 2005 using Windows Office Communicator. The communication is set for TCP (not TLS). Looking at the PIX logs we see that the initial SIP...

View Answer   |  Nov 4 2005  12:31 AM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by stuberman

  0 pts.

Copying Windows RAS Properties to Different Users

I have a user who uses a dial-up connection to perform her daily duties. She is getting ready to go on maternity leave and their is someone who will be filling her position temporarily. The new user needs to be able to use the same dial-up or RAS properties as the full-time employee. The dial-up...

View Answer   |  Nov 4 2005  11:23 AM GMT
Tech support, Security, Servers
asked by whiteboy444

  0 pts.

User circumventing security

We have a rogue user who knows more than she should. She can grant herself and other users the authority to access files that are supposed to be secured. Does anyone know of how we can monitor her activity or go back and review what she has done or anything that we can do. We think she may be using...

View Answer   |  Nov 3 2005  8:04 AM GMT
Security, Application security, Encryption
asked by mouse333

  0 pts.

E-mail filtering service thinks zip file is infected with W32/Bagle virus

One of our employees is having difficulty receiving e-mails from a vendor. The vendor is zipping up two text files and e-mailing the zip file to us. The Zip file is identified as a virus by our on-line e-mail filtering service and the e-mail is deleted before it hits our mail server. If the...

View Answer   |  Nov 1 2005  12:22 AM GMT
Security, Current threats, Viruses
asked by DKoch67

  5 pts.

Seeking SAP SEM configuration help

Recently, Manish, a SearchSAP.com user, sent in the following question on SAP SEM. <p> "Apart from standard SAP help, does anyone know of a SEM-BCS step-wise configuration guide? <p> Is there anything I can order online? I want to start on SEM-BCS as soon as possible." <p> Do...

View Answer   |  Oct 31 2005  4:40 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by laurenhoyt

  115 pts.

How to begin a thread with C, C++ on Linux

Hi everybody. I'm developing a C program, which uses tcp sockets, but I need it to be multi-thread, on the server side. In the past, I have made that on ms windows, using the beginthread or beginthreadex functions. Can somebody tell me how to create a thread on Linux ? Thanks in advance.

View Answer   |  Oct 31 2005  4:29 PM GMT
Ethernet, Linux, C
asked by carlosdl

  29540 pts.

Penetration Testing.

Hi!! Good Morning. I have a simple question for you today. I intend to have a penetration testing done for all of my 3 sites - My US Office, My India Office & My US Datacenter. Can you suggest any trustworthy site which can offer me a free reliable scan? Also, I would like to have you...

View Answer   |  Oct 28 2005  1:32 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by nileshroy

  0 pts.

Recommendations on protecting a Microsoft 2003 server with Lotus Domino 6.5

I need advice on where I can find information on how to secure a Domino web server on the internet. We are running on a Windows 2003 server. Is there a checklist or script I can work through to lock down my Domino configurations? Is there some way to know what I can uninstall or remove from the...

View Answer   |  Oct 26 2005  10:45 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by JAlyn63128

  0 pts.

Windows 2000 / 2003 Server Log Management

Hi All, I am an IT Security Administrator of my company. i need to audit more than 100 Windows servers for systems logs, event logs , anti virus server logs almost every month. I am looking out for automated tools that can help me make my work easier. A product with a good reporting tool will be...

View Answer   |  Oct 19 2005  10:53 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by Tarang

  0 pts.

SOS: Configuring Microsoft IIS6 to receive emails addressed to postmaster@69.59.X.X and / or abuse@69.59.X.X

Hi !! Heres the scenario: I have a webserver which is running windows 2003, IIS 6 & SMTP service. It has a public IP address assigned to it - 69.59.X.X I have a .net application which generates email and sends out the same using the my SMTP server on IP address 69.59.X.X During the pre-release...

View Answer   |  Oct 18 2005  6:07 AM GMT
Application security, Encryption, Database
asked by nileshroy

  0 pts.

how can an application disable/enable a user account in active directory??

How can a fingerprint reader be used to disable/enable a user account?? Could I use a VBscript to do this?

View Answer   |  Oct 18 2005  4:22 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by 0JeanLuc0

  0 pts.

user password auditing

We have recently purchased LC5 to perform password audits to discover weak passwords. The documentation indicates to use PWDUMP3 to extract password hashes from the Active Directory. I have looked everywhere and cannot find a legitimate site to download this tool nor can I find documentation. Has...

View Answer   |  Oct 14 2005  7:35 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by INSANEIT

  0 pts.

E-mail hacking

How can I hack my own e-mail address? Is there software available for this (commercial or freeware)?

View Answer   |  Oct 13 2005  3:49 PM GMT
Application security, Encryption, Database
asked by brainstorm22

  0 pts.

HTTP File upload/post Blocking

In this ever expanding world of network security I am seeking a software or appliance to block HTTP file uploads or post. The problem in a nutshell is I cannot block all of the HTML based Email providers. I also cannot block all of the web sites that support HTTP file posting. I am seeking a...

View Answer   |  Oct 13 2005  10:34 AM GMT
Networking, Network security, Firewalls
asked by rfergus28

  0 pts.

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