How 9-11 Shaped Hoover Dam Security Operations
The Hoover Dam is one of the great wonders of American engineering and in addition it is an important part of our nation's critical infrastructure. Here's a look at how the Bureau of Reclamation, a part of the U.S. Department of Interior, protects this national icon.
Don't Forget DHCP
When it comes to managing IP addresses, few of us would forget to track the IPs we assign manually to our WAN interfaces, servers, switches, and etc. However, once we decide to assign a DHCP scope to a subnet we tend to "set it and forget it". In many cases, this is a big mistake.
Engineering Judgment III: Account Management
A non-traditional approach to account management
Data Debauchery That Happens in Vegas Doesn't Stay There
Organizations love to collect data on people, often in the name of identity and access control. But more often than not, the information gathering fails to improve security. In fact, it often makes matters worse.
Access control vendors unite to tackle Linux, Unix and Windows
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Engineering Judgment III: Account Management
Relaying Mail from Subdomains
Microsoft NAP: NAC for the rest of us?
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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