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Troubleshooting Kerberos in a SharePoint environment (Part 1): Creating a test environment to show which error-messages come from configuration problems.
7 January 2009
Symantec Altiris SecurityExpressions - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Network Auditing: Symantec Altiris SecurityExpressions was selected the winner in the Network Auditing category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. Karalon Traffic IQ Professional was first runner-up and i-Sprint Enterprise AdminGuard and Stealthbits StealthAUDIT were second (...)
25 December 2008
Writing an Effective Security Policy (Part 2): How to write an effective security policy, covering elements of technical controls that should be found in the majority of policies in the world of PCI DSS, SOX, Euro SoX, Hippa and ISO 127001.
17 December 2008
Security Through Virtualization: How to use virtualization tools to increase the security of your Windows environment.
11 December 2008
Protecting System Files with UAC Virtualization (Part 2): How to control User Account Control virtualization using Group Policy, the Registry, and Task Manager.
9 December 2008
Writing an Effective Security Policy (Part 1): How to write an effective security policy.
3 December 2008
Menlo Logic's AccessPoint SSL VPN Software - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - VPN Software: Menlo Logic's AccessPoint SSL VPN Software was selected the winner in the VPN Software category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. Check Point VPN-1 Power was first runner-up and Astaro VPN Clients and Winfrasoft VPN-Q 2008 were second (...)
27 November 2008
Protecting System Files with UAC Virtualization (Part 1): How User Account Control uses Virtualization to protect the system.
26 November 2008
Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy (Part 4): Testing the clients and seeing how the security certificates are assigned and removed automatically and how clients are connected and disconnected from the network.
19 November 2008
The Pros and Cons of Behavioral Based, Signature Based and Whitelist Based Security: Taking a look at multiple security approaches, how they operate, and the strengths and weaknesses of each, along with a brief discussion of sandboxing and virtualization as security mechanisms.
13 November 2008
Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy (Part 3): How to configure a NAP IPsec Enforcement policy on the NPS and then moving on to the client systems so that we can use them for testing.
11 November 2008
Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe?: Taking a look at the security fundamentals and IM risks associated with opening up the messaging client access to the world.
5 November 2008
AW Security Port Scanner - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Network Security Scanner: AW Security Port Scanner was selected the winner in the Network Security Scanner category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner and ManageEngine Security Manager Plus were first runner-up and second (...)
30 October 2008
Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy (Part 2): Installing and configuring the Network Policy Server, the Health Registration Authority and the subordinate CA.
29 October 2008
Sharepoint Data Security Risks: The challenges of securing data on Microsoft SharePoint sites, lists, pages and the information made available through data-links to backend systems (through BDC and manually created data-links).
22 October 2008
Security in the Mobile Device Era: How to secure Windows Mobile 6.1 devices and looking at some issues that arise when you incorporate non-Windows mobile products (such as the iPhone) into your Windows network.
15 October 2008
Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy (Part 1): How to put together a NAP solution using IPsec policy enforcement.
9 October 2008
More VOIP, More Security: What needs to be done when securing VOIP: How to implement a VOIP solution whilst abiding by a security framework, and the challenges that we can expect when implementing VOIP.
7 October 2008
Creating and Managing Local Groups on Servers and Desktops: With the new Group Policy Preferences, you can create and manage the members of local groups. Here, learn how to do all of this with the new GPP settings.
1 October 2008
Microsoft ISA Server - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Firewall Softare: Microsoft ISA Server was selected the winner in the Firewall Software category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. Symantec Endpoint Protection and Astaro Security Gateway were first runner-up and second runner-up.
25 September 2008
Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 4): Setting up the DHCP server to work with the NPS server and the NAP policies, and then configure Group Policy so that NAP policy and NAP components are automatically configured for any machine that belongs to the NAP computers security group in Active (...)
24 September 2008
Control ALL USB Devices Using Group Policy: How to use Device Installation Restrictions to control USB devices on Windows Vista.
17 September 2008
Microsoft Live Mesh: What are the Security Implications?: The security implications of cloud computing in general and Live Mesh in particular, and what mechanisms Microsoft has built in to protect your "meshed" devices and data.
11 September 2008
Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 3): Taking a closer look at the policies created in the previous article and seeing what they do in the NAP DHCP enforcement solution.
9 September 2008
Risk Analysis: Things to Consider When Working Out How Much Risk We Carry: Understanding risk is an important element of deciding on the protection mechanism selected to protect assets. This article will focus on the framework that will help justify the appropriate controls.
3 September 2008
WinINSTALL - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Patch Management: WinINSTALL was selected the winner in the Patch Management category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. GFI Languard NSS and Shavlik NetChk Protect were first runner-up and second runner-up.
28 August 2008
Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 2): How to use the NAP policy wizard to automatically create the Network, Health and Connection policies that will be used to control access to the network.
27 August 2008