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Case Studies I Think Our Internet Connection is Down The following is a case analysis of a real incident that was uncovered while trying to assist a small company with a supposed down Internet connection. The particular organization published a few specialized magazines and did not have a full time trained technical staff. Read the Article Securing a Wide-Open Computer Network I will be outlining how I've applied many of the security principles discussed in this paper. While there are many highly qualified IT professionals in the field today, there are also a large number of unskilled people who used the media's certification hype as leverage to gain employment in the IT industry. The best example of this is Microsoft's MCSE which teaches nothing in terms of security concepts. Having dealt with this situation myself, I though it might be helpful to do an overview of the steps that I've taken to secure a wide open network from almost zero knowledge. Read the Article Information Technology Department Network Security Briefing When I started my career in Information Technology (too many years ago to mention), the corporate network at the company I was working for consisted of private leased lines to other cities within the United States. There was a single production mainframe computer that basically only had two types of devices that it communicated with, dumb terminals and printers. Security was straightforward, physically protecting the mainframe computer and peripherals was the most important item. Today it's a totally different story. Read the Article When Policies that have 'Always Worked', Don't The scenario I will describe in this paper outlines a failure of our "human systems" due to a limitation in our thinking about our procedures that could easily have had catastrophic results. What I will describe is a situation regarding one particular software package, but the principle it illustrates I hope will serve as a warning to those of us who may have let our past successes lull us into a sense of complacency regarding the security of our networks. Read the Article Page: 1 2 3 Members currently browsing this category:

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