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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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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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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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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This is a repository for IT security related policy documents. AGIX is focused on helping all businesses create and apply effective IT security policies to ensure businesses are not part of the problem of the global insecurity situation but rather they become part of the solution. These documents can be
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This article demonstrates how to configure the Confluence “server.xml” file when using Confluence behind an Apache Reverse Proxy on “HTTPS://”. Confluence runs on Tomcat which uses the “server.xml” for its basic settings. The following is a working example of the “server.xml” file when Confluence is running behind a secure (SSL/HTTPS)
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This article demonstrates how to configure an Apache server as a reverse proxy for Confluence. Confluence runs on Tomcat (out of the box) and listens on TCP port 8090 without encryption. Our goal is to listen on port 80 and redirect the connection to port 443 so our reverse proxy
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This is a short HowTo explaining the process of restoring files from backups previously created with Veeam. Note that the repository must be accessible – obviously. List previous backups: veeamconfig backup list Show the list of restore points that are available to restore files from: # Where ‘BackupID’ is derived
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