May 2007 - Posts

When you say goodbye to an employee

...what do you do with his or her account? Recently this question came up -- someone was asking for guidance on how to handle this very situation. And, as often happens, the question was more about process and policy than anything to do with the technical Read More...

Posted 31 May 07 11:29 by Steve Riley | 6 Comments   
Filed under security policies, threats, encryption

TechNet: Exploring the Windows Vista Firewall

New article up... Back in the days of the paleocomputing era, no one ever thought about installing firewalls on individual computers. Who needed to? Hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, TCP/IP was nowhere in sight, and LAN protocols didn’t route beyond Read More...

Posted 29 May 07 04:01 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments   
Filed under Windows Vista, security theater, protection

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