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Saturday, June 6th, 2009Each week via Twitter we post a daily audit checklist tweet for all the IS auditors and security administrators out there in the tweet-o-sphere. But, we realize not everyone is ready for Twitter, and many of you are still resisting (you can keep trying, but eventually you will give in and start tweeting, everyone will [...]
Free Information Security Awareness Training from InfraGard
Thursday, June 4th, 2009InfraGard Awareness is a FREE information security awareness course that can help individuals and small business owners understand how make their workplace more secure. It will also teach vital skills to protect yourself and your family from cybercrime and identity theft. This course is free to all individuals and small businesses under 50 employees.Â
Many [...]
Password Assessment with LC6 – Why it Matters for Auditors
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Last week the researchers over at the L0phtCrack team (Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, and Peiter Mudge Zatko) released a new version of their famous tool – l0phtcrack, this time known as LC6. The tool has finally returned from its long slumber and is now available for download and purchase from their website (http://www.l0phtcrack.com/index.html). And can [...]
Checklists a Day: Week in Review – May 30, 2009
Saturday, May 30th, 2009Each week via Twitter we post a daily audit checklist tweet for all the IS auditors and security administrators out there in the tweet-o-sphere. But, we realize not everyone is ready for Twitter, and many of your are still resisting (you can keep trying, but eventually you will give in and start tweeting, everyone will [...]
Twitter Tips for Info Sec Twerps
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009We have been spending a lot of time on Twitter here at Enclave Security and we have put together a short list of ideas for Info Sec pros who are interesting in becoming more active on Twitter.Â
•    Twitter is not so much about conversations; it is about sending out the message. As you know, both can [...]
Kylin: Secure Operating System for Chinese Systems
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009You have probably read about Microsoft’s partnership with the United States Air Force that revamped a secure version of Windows XP for deployment. Â Microsoft partnered with the Air Force to deploy a version of XP with more than 600 settings locked down, and critical security patches installed in an average of 72 hours instead of [...]
Moving over Keystroke Loggers, now we have Dynamic Time Warping?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Researchers at InversePath announced at the Tenth Annual CanSecWest conference that they were able to detect sniff keyboard strokes and determine which letters were being typed. They were able to detect and deduce the mechanical emissions from a keyboard by pointing a laser on the reflective surface of a laptop. Security Engineer Andrea Barisani and [...]
Microsoft Vista Resource Kit e-Book Free!
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Â Here it is the granddaddy of them all! Microsoft Press is offering the Windows Vista Resource Kit, including Service Pack 1 in e-book format. You can study all 1693 pages of the Resouce Kit and easily search for key terms. The Table of Contents include:
Overview
Deployment
Desktop Management
Desktop Maintenance
Networking
Troubleshooting
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 Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition
By Mitch Tulloch, Tony [...]
Learn about Hyper-V Security with this e-book
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Many security professionals are familiar with VMware and have been addressing their security architecture concerns surrounding virtualization. Microsoft’s virtualization software Hyper-V, available as a free stand-alone version, was released on October 1, 2008.  Hyper-V is a variant of Windows Server 2008 “Core”  in which other Windows 2008 Server Roles are disabled, and there are limited [...]
More Free e-Books from Microsoft
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Microsoft is offering free ebooks in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press. You can sign up for their newsletter for future notification of free books when you click the links below.
Windows Server 2008 Core Administrator’s Pocket Consultant
By Mitch Tulloch with the Windows Server Core Team at Microsoft
ISBN: 9780735626263
http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urws8un4p7
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services [...]