Definition of Home Office
The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo, or Small or Home Office or Single Office/Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are often categorized as a small business. When a company reaches 100 or more employees, it is often referred to a Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Security Implementation
This document is designed to guide home users on how to implement sufficient security measures on a home computer running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. It will provide you with loads of information to guide you to a more secure computing experience. This document contains no graphics in order to reduce the size of the document. There are plenty of tips and recommendations within this document to secure your environment sufficiently as well as possible spark your curiosity. The tools mentioned within this document are to be used at your own risk and should be reviewed before installing them. You may get warnings from your AntiVirus software downloading some of the tools. I have found nothing wrong with the tools downloaded and installed on my system. Please enjoy this document and Welcome to Windows XP Security.
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Personal Proxy - Online Privacy Protection for Home Users
Although online security has drawn increasing attention, online privacy issues have not been well addressed and communicated, especially for home users. Personal information collection is a common business practice for most web sites and this information can be collected without users' knowledge. There are few resources to educate home users effectively on how online privacy can be invaded and what they can do to protect against it. This paper describes certain online information collection methods and related privacy issues and introduces several personal proxy tools, particularly WebWasher in detail, to secure home users' online privacy. It concludes that better and comprehensive home computer security can be achieved when three types of critical security products: personal proxy, personal firewall and anti-virus, all work together.
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Spyware - Identification and Defense
You are being watched while surfing around the Internet. You may not realize it at the time but information about the websites you visit, products you purchase and even the advertising hyperlinks you follow are being collected and transmitted back to a server. This information is sold to whomever wants it. This is a general type of information that is not linked directly to you. Now, suppose you found a program you want to download, which you do. The installation completes and you reboot the system. You use the program until you find a software package that is more functional or you become bored with it. In any case you uninstall the program, or so you think. Without your knowledge or consent, this program has been transmitting personal data, i.e. bank account or credit card information, even personal medical history back to the developer.
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Losing Yourself: Identity Theft in the Digital Age
For most of us, giving out personal information like our home telephone number or driver's license number is an everyday occurrence. Something we do with every check we write or online order we place. But do we really know what happens to that information once it leaves our hands? More than ever, the information explosion, aided by an era of easy credit, has led to the expansion of a crime that feeds on the inability of consumers to control who has access to sensitive information and how it is safeguarded. That crime is identity theft.
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Identity Theft Made Easy
What's the one thing that we as individuals can claim to be our own from the moment we are born to even after our death? Our identity. ...Or so we would think or at least hope. Identity theft is steadily on the rise1 unknowingly to most of us; and, that is how the thieves would like to keep it. What was once done through what I would call "physical stealing" - starting off with stealing driver's license or some form of identification, then collecting more useful personal information and even doing some social engineering, identity theft is today made easy and "impersonal" with the use of the Internet and the development of shareware tools.
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Are You Being Watched?
Society today has become more sensitive to the dangers of their physical surroundings. Everyone knows not to go out alone, not to talk to strangers, not to pickup hitchhikers. The list could go on and on. However, not everyone is aware of just how dangerous a place the Internet can be. We happily open up our web browser and surf away, not even thinking for a moment that we might not be alone. However, in reality, it is not just you and the Internet out there. We would be very alarmed, if someone were following us around town and recording all of our activities. But, most users are unaware that the same ability exists and is currently being used on the unsuspecting Internet traveler. With every trip out on the Internet, users are being watched and profiled.
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Secure Configuration of a Cisco 837 ADSL firewall router
This paper describes, hopefully, a fairly typical small office/business scenario and one method to connect it securely to the Internet using a commercially available firewall/router, the Cisco 837 ADSL router. A summary of the relevant security features of the router is provided and a step-by-step explanation of the required configuration to use these features to their maximum-security effect. Finally some results are provided of a before and after scan performed on the network using the security scanning tool nmap. The paper is intended to provide a template and example for current recommended practices.
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Personal Firewalls - Protecting the Home Internet User
Computer Crime. Everyone has heard the term and most know its meaning. Gone are the days that only the US Government and major corporations are the targets of today's hacking genre. Believe it or not, the average home Internet user is a prime target for all types of computer crime. While computer crime will never stop, one can take preventative measures to hamper most attempts. Most have heard the terms "Trojans", "Worms", and "Viruses". Until recently (last 2-3 years) this was the most common threat to the home user. There are plenty of products like virus scanners that protect users from these menacing lines of harmful computer code. This is only one line of defense. All users need to be educated on these harmful attacks and intrusions to their systems.
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My Home Setup
Since attending the SANS 5 day training course on security I have made several changes to my home computer configuration. First, I will map out my home network and how it was vulnerable; next I will list the changes I have made after taking the course.
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The Importance of Social Engineering for the Home Internet User
The truth is, humans are often the weakest link when it comes to computer security. After reading through several articles on network security as well as attending training classes on the subject it has been made apparent that education (i.e. Social Engineering) of the users is every bit as important as the equipment put in place for protection. This being the case, why does it seem that education of the home Internet user is not a priority? In this paper I will discuss the necessity for the education of home Internet users. In addition, I will recommend several areas of improvement that will help home users understand the need for securing their systems.
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