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Articles & Tutorials for September, 2004

Baselining with Security Templates: Date - Sep 30, 2004; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; When it comes to network and computer security, it is always best to have your decisions made before you install a computer or network device. In conjunction with this philosophy, it is also ideal to have a benchmark or baseline of what the security initially was on computers and network devices in case you need to troubleshoot an issue or audit the security settings. In this article we will review how to use security templates to establish security baselines on every computer in the organization. Not only will we establish the security baseline, we will keep it persistently affecting the computers.
Removing Pests from Windows (Part 2): Date - Sep 28, 2004; Author - Ricky M. Magalhaes; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; In this two part article I will discuss pests and potential issues associated with pests that may be encountered within windows. These pests are like parasites of the digital world. These parasites feed off the electronic resources of the host machine, eventually draining the machine to standstill point.
Removing Pests from Windows (Part 1): Date - Sep 22, 2004; Author - Ricky M. Magalhaes; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; In this two part article I will discuss pests and potential issues associated with pests that may be encountered within windows. IT security professionals are faced with these resource and information divulging threats daily and because at his point there is not mature technology to deal with the problem officially it is challenging to remove these pests form the computer or server manually. These pests are like parasites of the digital world. These parasites feed off the electronic resources of the host machine, eventually draining the machine to standstill point.
Controlling Portable Storage Device Usage (USB/CDs etc) - Software Review: GFI LANguard P.S.C.: Date - Sep 16, 2004; Author - Deb Shinder; Section - Articles / Product Reviews; It seems as if almost every user has one or more USB devices to upload/download a gigabyte or more of data. Because of the reliability, portability and ease of use of flash memory - not to mention falling prices - portable storage devices are becoming ubiquitous. However, these also pose a serious threat to network security. GFI has just released their newest product: PSC (or Portable Storage Control) to control the usage of such devices within a network.
Group Policy Management Console (GPMC): Date - Sep 14, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; Overview of the Group Policy Management Console, Microsoft's new tool for managing operating system settings.
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Using Windows Terminal Services to Run a Single Application: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Articles / Windows OS Security; Using Group Policy and some scripting to publish a single application to Remote Desktop users.
Auditing Users and Groups with the Windows Security Log: Date - Sep 02, 2004; Author - Randall F. Smith; Section - Articles / Windows OS Security; Active Directory is one of the most important areas of Windows that should be monitored for intrusion prevention and the auditing required by legislation like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley. I say that because Active Directory is home to objects most associated with user access: user accounts, groups, organizational units and group policy objects. This article deals with monitoring users and groups using the Windows Security Log.