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| Computer Security 101: Free Computer Security 101 Class: Lesson 10 | |
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 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP, your Editor and Guide The 10th and final lesson of the Computer Security 101 course. This lesson wraps up with more proactive security measures you can implement to protect yourself. When you're done- study all 10 Lessons again. Tomorrow is the Final Exam! |
| Lessons | |
| Don't Act Too Privileged | |
| This first lesson discusses the pitfalls of logging in with omnipotent access such as administrator or root and some ways you can get around it. | |
| You Can Run, But You Can't Hide | |
| An overview of why its good to rename the administrator account, but how a good hacker can still find it even if its renamed. | |
| Unwelcome "Guest" and Backing Up | |
| This lesson covers why you should password protect, yet still disable the Guest account on Windows systems and the importance of backing up your data regularly. | |
| Emergency Boot Disk | |
| This last part covers some more points about backing up as well as how and why to create an emergency boot floppy disk to gain access to your system when it won't boot normally. | |
| Quiz | |
| Lesson 10 Quiz | |
| Click here to take the quiz for the 10th and final lesson of the Computer Security 101 course. Find out how much you learned about proactive steps to secure your computer. | |
| Tony Bradley About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security CISSP, MCSE2k, MCSA, A+ | |
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