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A General Defence Against Injection Attacks on Websites

By Adrian J. Beasley The usual range of IT Security techniques is of little use against injection attacks. They can mitigate some of the effects of such attacks by, for example, setting proper permissions on resources, and ensuring that access from websites Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 3:48 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Windows 2008 protection from Accidental deletion

Many thanks to Richard Siddaway for his article on protecting AD objects from Accidental Deletion. Well worth a read if you've ever deleted the wrong thing from AD. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:18 PM by jamesone | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Protection from Accidental Deletion

By Richard Siddaway, Microsoft Practice Leader, Centiq Ltd With each new version of the Windows Server Operating System there are new possibilities for automation to help make the administrator’s job easier. Automation brings increased efficiencies but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:11 PM by jamesone | 2 Comments

Information Security; The Business Enabler

By Paul Vincent Don’t get me wrong, I’m a tecchie. There was a time (and it wasn’t that long ago!) when I could name and identify the function of pretty much every Group Policy Object setting in Windows XP. However, Information Security is more than setting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:00 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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Who do you think you are?

By Craig Murphy Actually, that's the wrong question, I really need to know who you are, who you really are, please confirm your identity. How are you going to tell me who you are? I've got an e-mail address, send me an e-mail and I'll reply, then you'll Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:00 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Insider's Guide to Comparative Anti-Virus Reviews

By David Harley There has been a certain amount of excitement and irritation in anti-virus research circles about a not-very-good comparative test of antivirus scanners that was conducted at LinuxWorld on 8th August, 2007. I was so exercised personally Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 9:00 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Software Restriction Policies and PowerShell Code Signing

By Adrian J. Beasley Health Warning Software Restriction Policies (SRPs) are extremely powerful . They also make it possible for you to foul up big-time - there is no safety barrier. For all that, they are very useful. “With great power comes great responsibility.” Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 3:54 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Don’t secure your documents!!

By Adam Vero ...or rather, don’t use poor methods to secure documents (or anything else – this is bordering on Security Theatre). Also, don’t spend valuable IT resources securing things for users on a case-by-case basis by creating a tangled web of folders Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:38 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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Installing New Cryptographic Service Providers

The following article was kindly written by Adrian Beasley General That splendid company Smartcard focus (**ED - the broken link is now fixed**), purveyors of smart cards and ancillary equipment to the general public, has a number of types of card available, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:14 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smart Cards

The following article was kindly written by Adrian Beasley General I have recently installed Certificate Services on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition machine, in order to make available version 2 certificate templates, which are configurable, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 1:05 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smart Cards

Adrian Beasley wrote a wonderful article on Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smartcards - I particularly like it as he explains WHY each component is required rather than just diving into the detail - which he makes an excellent job of too. I Read More...
Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 9:08 AM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
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