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Enabling Secure Anywhere Access in a Connected World: A few times each year, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer publish an executive memo. The first memo was Bill's essay on trustworthy computing , in July 2002. Today Bill has a new memo , one that is very important for all of us who strive to achieve a balance Read More...
Posted 06 February 07 12:47 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments
Filed under access technologies, networking, protection, security policies
Did you know that you ALREADY have an e-mail policy?: An email access policy can be expressed in one of two ways: E-mail is mission critical to our business. Therefore, we permit employees to read and compose e-mail from any location in the world where employees can access the Internet, using either company-issued Read More...
Posted 10 September 06 05:34 by Steve Riley | 7 Comments
Filed under email, access technologies, protection, risk mitigation, security policies
Configure your router to block DOS attempts: Some time ago I had a discussion with a friend. He disagreed with my recommendations on how to configure a border router and the firewall behind it. I claimed that in the border router between you and your ISP, configure the six rules to block most denial Read More...
Posted 10 July 06 01:27 by Steve Riley | 13 Comments
Filed under access technologies, configuration, protection, risk mitigation, security policies, threats