Provisioning

Security & Digital Certificates

1)Services which can pose risks to the web server security? 2)Why is it advisable to have a stand-alone computer for a Registration Authority? Thanks.

Looking for good HIP.

Hi, I am looking for a good Host-based Intrusion Prevention System to be implemented on Intel Servers in my Company. Is there anything you would recommend...?

Digital Certificates-2

Under what circumstances may an organisation decide to have its own Certification Authority(CA) rather than purchasing certificates from a commercial CA and its implications? Thanks in Advance

Digital Certificates

Under what circumstances may an organisation decide to have its own Certification Authority(CA) rather than purchasing certificates from a commercial CA and its implications? Thanks in Advance

Encrypted files on External HD, host machine formatted but recoverable

Here is the lowdown, we have an external HD, and we backed up all the data needed too it. What i wasnt told was that the backup was being encrypted as it was being saved to the HD. So the pc was given to me to format and reinstall windows on. I did and now we get an access denied error when we...

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...

Password synch

Looking for a way to synch passwords between an iseries and windows network. Also looking to see if there is a way to snych passwords between multple iseries. Thanks

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

"Controled" proxy

Hi, I need to control my user's access to different sites. for example user1 should be able to access www.yahoo.com on providing username/password, where user2 should be denied (or get password from Admin... :-) ), in otherwords the software can keep the profiles of different user to access my...

simple remote administration

hey y'all... is there a way to do the following remotely? change passwords create a share on a server hard drive I have the adminpak installed on my workstation which allows me to do it. I want to be able to do it from ANY computer on the network. I have Win2k3 servers only, and WinXP clients...

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...

Password aging on Solaris

We currently have 6 Sun servers of various models, all running Solaris 9. I've been tasked with implementing global password aging for all these hosts. I know that I can set global values for use when creating new users, by modifying /etc/default/passwd (although I would prefer to set it in days,...

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?

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...

Denying Internet Access to User on Network

I have a PC on our network that has more than one user. I know how to deny access to the PC itself, but I would like one user be able to access our network, but not the internet. The other user to access both. The server is running Win2003SBS, the PC is running WinXP. I am pretty sure this is...

Windows logon by fingerprint

I would like to tighten desktop security by replacing/renforcing the login passwords with fingerprints. The userID must be matched to the user's fingerprint for logon authentication. My USB fingerprint scanner already has software that enrolls, verifies and stores fingerprints in a database in the...