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In case you have been living under a rock for the past month you have most likely heard about the DNS cache exploit recently discovered by Dan Kaminsky . This might be one of the most severe flaws discovered as it was cross platform affecting everything
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On Tuesday, July 22 nd , Tim Rains (Group Product Manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing) will be in Edmonton for an open talk on security and the changes in the threat landscape. What? Open Discussion on Security and Threat Landscape Who? Tim Rains
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Main Discussion Points: Most organizations have policies but how to you ensure they are enforced and not just on paper Important to understand the cost of security and of not being secure/caring about it Physical device security is also important and
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This is the last podcast in the series from my time at SecTor. Kevin Coleman was the Chief Strategist at Netscape before becoming a Senior Fellow and Strategic Management Consultant with the Technolytics Institute – an executive think-tank. When Kevin
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I know a lot of people who are running Vista and disabling UAC. I'll admit UAC can make for a frustrating install and setup experience with the repeated prompts with every application you install and every MMC console you launch. Turing it off, while
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At the recent SecTor event I had a chance to sit down with Kai Axford, who is part of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing team, and Warren Bulmer from the Toronto Police Service after their session on Computer Forensics ( PPT and WMV available). What do
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A few weeks ago I had the chance to take in SecTor. Normally when I go to an event like this I hang out in the Community Zone or am presenting or doing some other work. This time I showed up as an attendee, went to a load of sessions, networked, and hung
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Last week, Rodney and I both had the opportunity to attend the Security Education Conference in Toronto (SecTor). It was an excellent conference, one that I would recommend if you have anything to do with IT security in your job and can make it to the
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Based on the recent success of the My TechNet Security Tour, IT pros and developers in Canada care about security. Computer security impacts our lives in so many ways from personal things like online banking, to protecting corporate assets. In order to
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Last week Rick and I were in Vancouver for the My TechNet Security tour and again we had some great questions again. One of the SMS questions that came in had to do with deploying your self signed Root CA via Active Directory. When using an internal CA
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Damir and I have returned from Montreal after dropping in for the My TechNet Security tour. We had a great time at the Montreal IT Professionals Group talking about data security tools in XP and Vista and then a packed house at the event on Thursday.
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Security. It is on the minds of more and more people these days as evident by the large draw of the My TechNet Security Tour, the coverage in the press, and conversations with other IT professionals in Canada. Security is important. One of the challenges
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) Last week we were very fortunate to have Kai Axford (CISSP, MCSE-Security) do a Western Canada sweep hitting Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria UG’s. Kai Axford (CISSP, MCSE-Security) is a Senior
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Yep, the kiddies are back in school, and things are back to normal as everyone comes back from summer holidays. I am one of those kiddies back in school for a few weekends. After the great HPC learning experience back in July, I wanted more. Not having
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I saw Brian Bourne give this presentation at Energize IT and asked to have it written up as a guest blog post. Over the past few years his company, CMS Consulting, has been doing security audits and this lead to their list of top 10 mistakes. --------------------------------------------------
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