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Monday, March 31, 2008 9:58 PM

How to set up Network Access Protection to measure compliance of CISCO's Network Admission Control clients

The Step-by-Step Guide: Demonstrate NAP 802.1X Enforcement in a Test Lab explains exactly how to set NAP up in a lab to measure compliance (and optionally restrict network access) of clients accessing the network by network switches capable of port based
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:48 AM

Let me guess what your wireless security settings are...

I've just bought the cheapest wireless router I could find to share my hotel broadband connection with my room-mates. Note: The Internet access is covered in the room rate and we are allowed to share it. Against my better judgment I ran the software that
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:45 PM

How to secure a wireless network: How to view the advanced wireless interface on Windows Vista

This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router , How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID , How to secure a wireless network: Part 3 of 5 - Reconfiguring a Vista
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Friday, August 17, 2007 8:40 PM

How to secure a wireless network: Part 5 of 5 - Connecting using WPA for the first time on XP *broken link fixed*

* NOTE: I've fixed the broken link to the demo* This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router , How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID , How to secure a wireless
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:26 PM

How to secure a wireless network: Part 4 of 5 Connect using WPA for the first time on Windows Vista

This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router , How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID and How to secure a wireless network: Part 3 of 5 - Reconfiguring a Vista
Posted by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:16 PM

How to secure a wireless network: Part 3 of 5 - Reconfiguring a Vista client to connect to your WPA secured access point

This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router and How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID The first post includes a detailed description of some key security
Posted by Steve Lamb | 8 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:04 PM

How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID

This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router which includes a detailed description of some key security myths pertaining to wireless security. The first post also goes into detail about why
Posted by Steve Lamb | 8 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 7:29 PM

How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router

This is the first part in a series of five blogcasts (video demonstrations showing you "how to") that look at how to secure a wireless network by configuring Wireless Protected Access (WPA) on both the Access Point (AP) and Vista/XP clients. Note: These
Posted by Steve Lamb | 11 Comments
Friday, August 10, 2007 4:24 PM

Poor wireless signal? - how to improve the range of your wireless network

I recently set up a new wireless router at home and was disappointed to find that I couldn't connect to the network whilst upstairs. This didn't make a great deal of sense as I live in a house that's only ten years old so it's pretty much made of cardboard
Posted by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:02 AM

It's a bargain - browse the Internet @ Seattle Internation Airport (SeaTac)

I was pleasantly surprised to find that wireless Internet access is only $8 (for 24 hours) at Seattle International Airport (seatac). I know it's free at many coffee bars but few airports that I've visited provide good value Internet access. It's nice
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:41 PM

Make sure you get your wireless security passphrase right on Windows Vista

This won't come as a surprise for those of you who've read many of my blog entries or who've discussed security with me directly but I have a somewhat obtuse Wireless Protected Access (WPA) passphrase and I've just mistyped it on my newly built Windows
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Friday, December 02, 2005 11:08 AM

How to Secure wireless networks?

A good point of reference is http://www.microsoft.com/wifi as you'll find a wealth of best practise advice there. Another good source is the current TechNet Magazine which can be accessed both online (you can download the entire thing) and in print too
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:03 AM

Fill a few more braincells with security knowledge at these events

Tuesday 29th Nov- Public Key Infrastructure – tell me in plain English AND THEN deep technical how PKI works - deep technical session taking place in Reading (England) - it's free to join us - just follow the link to register Wednesday 30th Nov - British
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:45 PM

Teaching Security to Developers

Thanks to everyone @ VBUG Birmingham last night for making me so welcome. I was greated with lots of Halloooween pumpkins - one of which was carved with a semi-colon in it rather than a face - a C# joke apparently! I delved into how Malware gets onto
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:14 PM

Join us on 29th Nov to find out in Plain English AND deep technical HOW PKI works

Many of you have asked me questions about Public Key Infrastructure with regard to it's use for securing web transactions (SSL), wireless (PEAP & EAL-TLS), email (S/MIME) and Rights Management. Prior to joining Microsoft I was a security consultant
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