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The Essentials Series: Fulfilling Compliance by Eliminating Administrator Rights
Realtime Publishers releases another new Essentials Series this week. A unique five-pronged approach, this guide drills down into the specific compliance regulations that impact the spread of administrator rights in your business. You'll be surprised...
Upcoming Update for Windows Update
Ahhh, there's nothing like recursive titles. With all apologies, I'll admit I stole this one directly from Microsoft's Windows Update Team Blog. It quite simply explains what you'll be soon seeing on your WSUS servers. In short, Microsoft WSUS will b...
Microsoft Now Considered a *Leader* in Security. Yep, You Heard it Right.
...and knowing that this sentiment is coming from none other than InfoWorld's Roger Grimes gives it even more weight. Grimes writes: Talk about a turnaround. It's always hard to recognize the larger, slow-moving paradigm shifts as they happen. But af...
New Essentials Series! The Role of Database Activity Monitoring in Database Security
No time for a full e-book? That's one reason why RTP develops so many of these easily-approachable Essentials Series. In a few short pages we can bring you a concise view of information that might not ever make its way into a full e-book. In this new...
New Chapter! The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives
Also new to RTP is Chapter 3 of the e-book Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives by Rebecca Herold. This unique e-book looks at the issues surrounding data protection from the perspectives of four different stakeholders. The r...
New Essentials Series! Increasing Performance in Enterprise Anti-Malware Software
Today's Anti-Malware clients have become bloated suites that often have a negative impact on system performance. Yet, ever increasing security threats require that every system within an enterprise must be protected. The Essentials Series: Increasing...
New E-Book! The Shortcut Guide to Certificates in the Enterprise
Realtime Publishers just released the final chapter in Don Jones' new e-book, The Shortcut Guide to Certificates in the Enterprise. With a very down-and-dirty technical focus, this e-book is one you should definitely pick up... Do you use digital cer...
The World's Most Dangerous Search Terms
McAfee releases a study showing the top 12 most dangerous search terms on the 'net. Topping out with a 59.1% maximum risk is the term "screensavers". Here's the list in decending order: Screensavers Free Games Work From Home Rihanna Webkinz Powerball...
Introducing "File Classification" in R2. Special Handling for Special Files!
Here's a neat new feature of R2 that you might have missed: Microsoft has updated the feature capabilities of an old friend, the File Server Resource Manager, with the added ability to manage file "classifications". These classifications arrive as an...
Tech Ed Talk Show: Don and Greg on Windows Server Update Services SP2
This year's Tech Ed continued Microsoft's focus into video-based content. If you couldn't make it to Tech Ed (which was plenty of you considering the very low attendance), this by-the-user/for-the-user content is a great way to hear what's new and ex...
Conficker Strikes Tomorrow
You've probably been reading the world news about the Conficker worm, whose payload is set to strike tomorrow. Detailed information is available on the McAfee website here, and you can grab the removal tool (which you should run today and not tomorro...
Essentials Series: Certificates in the Enterprise and Essentials Series: Code-Signing Certificates
My TS Gateway and TS Web Access ordeal of last week has had me thinking about certificates in ways I haven't needed to in a long while. If you're like me in that the nuances of certificate knowledge escape you, you might consider checking out Don Jon...
Virtualization Security Roundtable Podcast Asks the Question, "What is Virtual Security?"
Ed Haletky, author of the book VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers, recently pointed me to the Virtualization Security Roundtable Podcast. This podcast takes a roundable approach to discussing the topics ...
Eliminating Admin Rights. A Most-Effective Solution - Proven Yet Again - for Protecting Your Windows Network
Just last night, I got an early edition copy of BeyondTrust's new report "Reducing the Threat from Microsoft Vulnerabilities". The results of this report are tantilizing to say the least. According to BeyondTrust, 92% of 2008's critical Microsoft vul...
The Shortcut Guide to Optimized WAN Application Delivery
The Shortcut Guide to Optimized WAN Application Delivery offers insight into the whys and wherefores, as well as the nuts and bolts involved in optimizing WAN applications to improve the end user experience. Along the way, readers will learn about th...
The Essentials Series: Selecting the Right Network Threat Management Solution
Network threats are multifaceted and so are the security products that can protect your assets. The Essentials Series: Selecting the Right Network Threat Management Solution examines the trade offs of combining off the shelf security products versus ...
RODCs and Protecting your User Passwords
This week over at MCPmag.com, Zubair Alexander answers what I believe to be a very important question related to the implementation of RODCs. You see, RODCs are designed specifically for use in branch office scenarios. They're a mechanism for reducin...
BeyondTrust Privilege Manager Extends Support to the GPME
Some great new news coming out of BeyondTrust this morning. Recognizing the power of integrating with our existing Group Policy tools, this product has added support for creating policies through the Group Policy Management Editor on Windows Server 2...
Virtualization is BAD for Security. No, Really! Here's Why...
How's that for an inflamatory headline? OK, I'll admit that virtualization isn't necessarily bad for security, but only if you're aware of and compensate for how it impacts the environment. Let me be succicent. All things being equal, if you implemen...
ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus Business Edition - A First Look
So I got dumped on a few weeks ago by a massive malware drive-by. Honestly, I think it was a karmatic response to a recent post over at the Concentrated Technology blog where I attempted a thought experiment titled Don't Buy Anti-Virus Software. If y...
User Account Control in Windows 7
User Account Control in Windows Vista was a great idea on paper, but one with a bad implementation. At least that's the opinion of this blogger. Luckily, Microsoft has recognized the limitations and annoyances of UAC and is working on updates that wi...
How to Reduce the Nightmare of Privileged Accounts and Administrator Rights
I've blogged and podcasted before about this excellent three-part Essentials Series on Eliminating Administrator Rights. (I can call it "excellent"... I wrote it!) Sponsored by BeyondTrust, this series talks about the problems virtually all IT organi...
Eliminating Admnistrator Rights
Vista's User Account Control was a valient attempt by Microsoft to address the needs of Least Privilege, but ultimately its implementation was a failure. Least Privilege effectively requires IT to lock down privilege based on a combination of factors...
