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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.

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.

Windows 2000 Active Directory customizer

I am working on a Windows 2000 Active Directory and am trying to achieve the following: 1. Users are not allowed to logon to more than 1 PC 2. The PCs must autoshutdown after some idle time, even during logoff 3. Keep track of each user's login duration 4. All logon accounts should be disabled on...

asked by 0JeanLuc0

  0 pts.

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...

View Answer   |  Oct 6 2005  3:58 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by 0JeanLuc0

  0 pts.

Security/ Audit Check list for DB2

Hi, I'm in the process of hardening the DB2 in Linux and I'm looking for a checklist to help me make sure I don't miss anypoint. Since I'm not an expert on DB2 I would like to have a starting point. I'm looking to make sure I don't leave open doors and also I want ot make sure I don't get an...

View Answer   |  Sep 27 2005  12:45 AM GMT
Oracle, SQL, DB2
asked by josec99

  0 pts.

End-user awareness education for company newsletter

I have been given the task of developing user awareness 1-pager fact sheets to be distributed on a monthly basis in our company newsletter and posted on our intranet. I can write these from scratch but was hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel. Help?

View Answer   |  Sep 27 2005  9:04 AM GMT
Security, Career development, Current threats
asked by CalendarGirl

  0 pts.

Outlook client can't access MS-Exchange Server over IPSec

Hi There, I have a strange problem in a customer. He connects their laptops over IPSec into the corporate LAN and the firewall/VPN server assigns IP addresses from the IPSec Address Pool (different from LAN subnet). There are some Packet Filter rules on the firewall that allow traffic from this...

View Answer   |  Sep 26 2005  11:44 AM GMT
Networking, Network security, Firewalls
asked by hedgehog

  0 pts.

ECPI college...good or bad-2

Good Evening: I've recently completed 8 years in the US Navy and I'm looking to complete my degree and I see a lot of talk about ECPI college. It's a technical college but it's a 2-year degree. I'm looking to get into computer network design, internet security and computer science and I'm...

View Answer   |  Sep 25 2005  4:23 PM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by TripleHHH

  0 pts.

ECPI college...good or bad

Good Evening: I've recently completed 8 years in the US Navy and I'm looking to complete my degree and I see a lot of talk about ECPI college. It's a technical college but it's a 2-year degree. I'm looking to get into computer network design and computer science and I'm wondering if ECPI or any...

View Answer   |  Sep 25 2005  4:22 PM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by TripleHHH

  0 pts.

Pix Firewall and Proxy Server

I need to allow only one IP address (the one for proxy server) to browse through Pix firewall to Internet. What will be the commands in PIX firewall to block the traffic to Internet from all the network 10.2.1.x but only allow 10.2.1.10 (Proxy server). All other computers will use proxy server...

View Answer   |  Sep 25 2005  1:49 PM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Networking
asked by EngineerIT

  0 pts.

Prefferred Anti Virus Program?

Hi All, Can i get any suggestions on what you consider being the BEST Anti virus software with not much hassles! The 2 i`m most interested in is Norton and Mcafee? Any 3rd party app will also be greatly appreciated! I had Norton 2005 Internet Security on my PC,1.7GHZ AMD,Win XP SP2, 384MG RAM...

View Answer   |  Sep 25 2005  6:10 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, Disaster Recovery
asked by Wazzup

  0 pts.

Need Help - Netscreen 25 with Fortigate 60.

Hi All. Good Morning & Greetings of the season. I recently joined this company as a Network Security Specialist & the 1st task that i got assigned to myself was this. We have 3 locations - A (India) - Indian Operations B (California) - US Operations C (Datacenter) - Web & Media Servers ...

View Answer   |  Sep 14 2005  10:05 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Network security
asked by nileshroy

  0 pts.

has anyone had issues with appliances getting cracked?

We have a mcafee anti-virus and anti-spam appliance. We used it as out internet email presence and as a web proxy. All email comes in thru it and all web traffic from our internal web proxy went thru it. The web proxy is limited to less than half of the internet bandwidth. It is behind stateful...

View Answer   |  Sep 13 2005  7:02 PM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by astronomer

  0 pts.

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