Scenario: You’re at home and want to log into the office Intranet to finish up some work. But wait, the Intranet is on your corporate network and you’re at home. Sure you can use your corporate VPN – if you have one and can remember the credentials. If not, consider
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Report after report shows that the problem of information security is getting worse at a faster rate than we are getting better. It is an uphill battle and as we climb, the hill is getting taller. The only hope is change. The question is, what change is necessary? That’s the
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All businesses need a way to induct their new staff into the business. So far it’s either paper based, computer based or purely verbal. This article is for those that want to use a computer based system. Here’s an important tip. If you’re going to use an LMS (learning management
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Recently I received an email forwarded-on by a company director who asked the question “How are we treating IT security in our business?”. I was pleasantly surprised. The email was originally sent by someone who had done the course and felt compelled to share it with those in similar positions
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We’re excited to share our IT Security Exam preparation tool with our fellow IT professionals at no cost for the this week only. Next week it will be back to subscriptions only. Go to “https://www.examkabam.com/” and click the Signup button. Your free subscription will work for a month and no
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This article shows how to configure pfSense to allow MacOS devices to connect using IPSec (IKEv1). Unfortunately I could not get IKEv2 to work. In this article, we’ll be using a RADIUS server (for authentication). The creation of the RADIUS server is not included in this HowTo but the pfSense
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This article shows how to install and configure the NTP client using Ansible. I’ve cheated a little by using the “ntpdate” command rather than a service. But i find this more reliable. The following is the yml file: — – hosts: all sudo: yes tasks: – name: Install ntpdate yum:
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As it is right now, when you browse to your favorite website, your web browser attempts to connect insecurely first and then, if told to, it will try again securely. I suspect this will change one day soon and the sooner the better. Most websites that you visit today will
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This article shows how to easily take a list of installed YUM packages from one server and then install those same packages on another server. Get the list of installed packages from the source server: rpm -qa –queryformat “%{NAME}\n” > ~/yum.list Copy that list file (~/yum.list) to the target server
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Forcing staff web browsers to use the company proxy is critical for logging and auditing Internet usage and activity. The question is, which method of configuring web browsers to use a proxy is best? When it comes to configuring web browser proxy setting, we have 4 options: Configure the proxy
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