Career
You may want to start off with the basic’s, like Security+. A lot of organizations, especially the government look for this certification of a resume. From there, Try CASP, another CompTIA exam. Now, depending on how far into security you want to go, here is a site you may consider looking into: http://www.giac.org/certification/security-essentials-gsec Read this [...]
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| March 29, 2013 8:19 AM
CCNA, CCNP, Security careers
You may want to start off with the basic’s, like Security+. A lot of organizations, especially the government look for this certification of a resume. From there, Try CASP, another CompTIA exam. Now, depending on how far into security you want to go, here is a site you may consider looking into: http://www.giac.org/certification/security-essentials-gsec Read this [...]
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| March 29, 2013 8:19 AM
CCNA, CCNP, Security careers
Public firewall hotspot system
There are lot of moving parts here, and variables that you aren’t mentioning. It depends on what you need. I’m sure Wayport (AT&T Wi-Fi), Cisco, and many others have a solution for you. If you can share some more about your needs we can probably drill down and help further.
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| March 19, 2013 10:43 PM
Bandwidth management, Firewall, Internet, Internet connection
There are lot of moving parts here, and variables that you aren’t mentioning. It depends on what you need. I’m sure Wayport (AT&T Wi-Fi), Cisco, and many others have a solution for you. If you can share some more about your needs we can probably drill down and help further.
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| March 19, 2013 10:43 PM
Bandwidth management, Firewall, Internet, Internet connection
Encryption
If it’s web mail, you’ll know you’re using an encrypted connection if you see “https://” in the address field. The other email protocols SMTP, POP3, and IMAP can use encrypted connections over ports 465, 995, and 993 respectively. If you see any mention of these ports in your email configuration then you’re connections may very [...]
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| March 19, 2013 5:52 PM
Encryption, Security, Security policies
If it’s web mail, you’ll know you’re using an encrypted connection if you see “https://” in the address field. The other email protocols SMTP, POP3, and IMAP can use encrypted connections over ports 465, 995, and 993 respectively. If you see any mention of these ports in your email configuration then you’re connections may very [...]
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| March 19, 2013 5:52 PM
Encryption, Security, Security policies
What can CIOs do to counter the spread of cyber attacks?
It’s relatively simple: Know what you’ve got Understand how it’s at risk Do something about it It’s numbers 2 and 3 that so many people have trouble with. The reality is you cannot secure what you don’t acknowledge. You most certainly cannot secure the big areas when the CIO is actually getting in the way. [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:22 PM
CIO, cybersecurity
It’s relatively simple: Know what you’ve got Understand how it’s at risk Do something about it It’s numbers 2 and 3 that so many people have trouble with. The reality is you cannot secure what you don’t acknowledge. You most certainly cannot secure the big areas when the CIO is actually getting in the way. [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:22 PM
CIO, cybersecurity
Is society prepared for a kinetic cyber attack?
Generally speaking, no society is not prepared…nor are most IT shops based on what I see in my work. I think the overarching issue is the fact that many (most?) people don’t truly understand computer security and what’s at stake…hence the continued security gaffes we see. The Mandiant APT1 report was fascinating…some eye-opening things for [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:18 PM
cybersecurity, Security
Generally speaking, no society is not prepared…nor are most IT shops based on what I see in my work. I think the overarching issue is the fact that many (most?) people don’t truly understand computer security and what’s at stake…hence the continued security gaffes we see. The Mandiant APT1 report was fascinating…some eye-opening things for [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:18 PM
cybersecurity, Security
How is your company handling Cloud Email Security? Sandboxing?
Good question Chris. I’ve found that the more hoops you make your users jump through, the greater the chance they’ll find a workaround. I haven’t seen any clients take the sandboxed email client approach but it’s worthy of consideration. I’d just recommend making sure you think things through first and get management on board before [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:05 PM
Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Sandboxing, Security
Good question Chris. I’ve found that the more hoops you make your users jump through, the greater the chance they’ll find a workaround. I haven’t seen any clients take the sandboxed email client approach but it’s worthy of consideration. I’d just recommend making sure you think things through first and get management on board before [...]
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| March 18, 2013 2:05 PM
Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Sandboxing, Security
What steps should the healthcare industry take to lessen the risks of security breaches?
Upgrading the database software to something current would be a nice start. Most healthcare software running on SQL Server is still running SQL 2000 because the vendor doesn’t want to go through FDA approval for the new version. Also most healthcare companies don’t have IT people in charge of IT. They have doctors making [...]
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| March 11, 2013 7:39 PM
Healthcare, Security
Upgrading the database software to something current would be a nice start. Most healthcare software running on SQL Server is still running SQL 2000 because the vendor doesn’t want to go through FDA approval for the new version. Also most healthcare companies don’t have IT people in charge of IT. They have doctors making [...]
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| March 11, 2013 7:39 PM
Healthcare, Security
Transfer coverage to another computer
Yes you just need to do a full uninstall from the one you want it off. When you do that it will remove the license from the computer and you can apply it to the new computer.
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| March 4, 2013 12:35 PM
Migration, Norton
Yes you just need to do a full uninstall from the one you want it off. When you do that it will remove the license from the computer and you can apply it to the new computer.
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| March 4, 2013 12:35 PM
Migration, Norton
Cyber-squatting
Basically when you purchase a domain name (website’s name) with no plans of doing anything with it, with the hope that someone will pay you a lot of money to purchase it from you.
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| March 3, 2013 9:03 PM
cyber-squatting, Security
Basically when you purchase a domain name (website’s name) with no plans of doing anything with it, with the hope that someone will pay you a lot of money to purchase it from you.
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| March 3, 2013 9:03 PM
cyber-squatting, Security
Project Tools For Risk
Which tool have you tried?
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| February 28, 2013 9:58 PM
Risk management
Which tool have you tried?
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| February 28, 2013 9:58 PM
Risk management
Change email address and password
You contact the email provider
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| February 27, 2013 9:03 PM
Email account, Password
You contact the email provider
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| February 27, 2013 9:03 PM
Email account, Password
Skype Hacking
Thanks for your info. The calls are coming from contacts on my list, but the people are not who they claim to be, and they REDIRECT to themselves the calls that I try to make to my contacts. Can they do this by breaking into our home network? Or do they need to have some [...]
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| March 14, 2013 8:21 PM
Security, Skype
Thanks for your info. The calls are coming from contacts on my list, but the people are not who they claim to be, and they REDIRECT to themselves the calls that I try to make to my contacts. Can they do this by breaking into our home network? Or do they need to have some [...]
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| March 14, 2013 8:21 PM
Security, Skype
Architecture
Thank you for visiting ITKE. We are happy to help you with solving specific IT questions, but need as much information as possible to do so. Let us know about the problem you are trying to solve, how you are approaching it and what work you’ve done so far, and we can help guide you [...]
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| May 13, 2013 12:46 PM
Security, Security Architecture
Thank you for visiting ITKE. We are happy to help you with solving specific IT questions, but need as much information as possible to do so. Let us know about the problem you are trying to solve, how you are approaching it and what work you’ve done so far, and we can help guide you [...]
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| May 13, 2013 12:46 PM
Security, Security Architecture
Did he extract my hard drive information with his USB key under the guise of loading a Wi-Fi printer on my laptop?
There is a file called AUTORUN.INF which can appear on removable devices and will be automatically run based on your computer settings. You should turn off this functionality. This did not necessarily take data from your computer but it is disconcerting.
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| February 19, 2013 1:37 PM
Printer, Security, USB devices
There is a file called AUTORUN.INF which can appear on removable devices and will be automatically run based on your computer settings. You should turn off this functionality. This did not necessarily take data from your computer but it is disconcerting.
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| February 19, 2013 1:37 PM
Printer, Security, USB devices
What impact will President Obama’s cybersecurity order have on the industry?
This directive, like most others coming out of Washington these days, will prove to be yet another compliance burden that businesses will face. Interestingly, looking through Obama’s Cybersecurity Near Term Actions, most of these things have already been put in place in some form: FISMA, InfraGard, the myriad of federal and state privacy/security regulations, the [...]
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| March 1, 2013 7:46 PM
cybersecurity, Security
This directive, like most others coming out of Washington these days, will prove to be yet another compliance burden that businesses will face. Interestingly, looking through Obama’s Cybersecurity Near Term Actions, most of these things have already been put in place in some form: FISMA, InfraGard, the myriad of federal and state privacy/security regulations, the [...]
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| March 1, 2013 7:46 PM
cybersecurity, Security
Running a script
Hi Ravula, I would recommend that you take a look at the GoAnywhere solution that Charlie mentioned. GoAnywhere Services is an SFTP server that can run on any version of Windows, all flavors of Linux/Unix and also installs and runs perfectly on an IBM i system. When a user uploads a file via SFTP, it [...]
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| February 15, 2013 6:20 AM
AS/400, AS/400 administration, SFTP
Hi Ravula, I would recommend that you take a look at the GoAnywhere solution that Charlie mentioned. GoAnywhere Services is an SFTP server that can run on any version of Windows, all flavors of Linux/Unix and also installs and runs perfectly on an IBM i system. When a user uploads a file via SFTP, it [...]
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| February 15, 2013 6:20 AM
AS/400, AS/400 administration, SFTP
About biometrics
Thank you for visiting ITKE. We are happy to help you with solving specific IT questions, but need as much information as possible to do so. Let us know about the problem you are trying to solve, how you are approaching it and what work you’ve done so far, and we can help guide you [...]
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| May 13, 2013 9:19 AM
Biometrics
Thank you for visiting ITKE. We are happy to help you with solving specific IT questions, but need as much information as possible to do so. Let us know about the problem you are trying to solve, how you are approaching it and what work you’ve done so far, and we can help guide you [...]
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| May 13, 2013 9:19 AM
Biometrics
My computer hacked by someone in Afghanistan?
The first thing you need to think about is why someone would just ring / email / send pigeon to let you know that someone has hacked your machine / Phone / Nintendo DS. There is no gain for them to do this. It is likely that they are trying to sell you somethng that [...]
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| February 7, 2013 8:34 PM
Hacking, Security
The first thing you need to think about is why someone would just ring / email / send pigeon to let you know that someone has hacked your machine / Phone / Nintendo DS. There is no gain for them to do this. It is likely that they are trying to sell you somethng that [...]
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| February 7, 2013 8:34 PM
Hacking, Security
Merge two ASA 5510′s into one
Hi, and welcome to ITKE. I will try to help, but without seeing the actual config, this is a bit of an impossible question to answer with any real accuracy. I don’t think it would be a good idea to post the configs here either. Generally, you need to take the parts of the config, [...]
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| February 5, 2013 1:57 PM
Cisco, Cisco ASA, Cisco ASA 5510, Firewall, VPN
Hi, and welcome to ITKE. I will try to help, but without seeing the actual config, this is a bit of an impossible question to answer with any real accuracy. I don’t think it would be a good idea to post the configs here either. Generally, you need to take the parts of the config, [...]
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| February 5, 2013 1:57 PM
Cisco, Cisco ASA, Cisco ASA 5510, Firewall, VPN
What security trend worries you the most for 2013?
I’d say, based on what I see in my security assessment work, that malware is indeed a problem – more than many believe. Traditional anti-virus is not enough for many enterprises. Mobile too. It’s mostly out of control. Not good for security. The one thing that many still overlook is web vulnerabilities that have gone [...]
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| February 26, 2013 8:53 PM
cybersecurity, Security
I’d say, based on what I see in my security assessment work, that malware is indeed a problem – more than many believe. Traditional anti-virus is not enough for many enterprises. Mobile too. It’s mostly out of control. Not good for security. The one thing that many still overlook is web vulnerabilities that have gone [...]
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| February 26, 2013 8:53 PM
cybersecurity, Security
