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Friday, November 30, 2007

About Net Security: November 30, 2007

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  from Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP
How do you learn best? Some prefer to read the information. Some do better with a lecture presentation, or just diving in hands-on and learning the "hard way" as they go. Do you learn better visually? Check out the new video "How To Create Secure Passwords" to learn the tips and tricks you can use to create passwords that can't be easily guessed or cracked.

 
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Video: How To Create a Secure Password
Passwords are the keys to the proverbial kingdom for most sites, services, and applications. While emerging authentication methods such as smartcards, and fingerprint scanners, or other biometric authentication methods continue to gain prevalence, passwords are still used more than anything else. How many passwords do you have? How do you remember them?...read more

 
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Poll Results: Top 3 Security Products
What does it take to protect a home computer? If you could only have three security products installed to secure your computer against malware, malicious attacks, and other threats, what would those three security products be? Well, with 168 readers responding to the poll, Antivirus software and a Personal Firewall are easily the top 2. Antivirus received the vote of 85% of respondents, while Personal Firewall came in with 79%. The third place product...read more

 
LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know
Your organization has invested in a variety of security tools and technologies. You have server-level antivirus running on your mail server, and client-level antivirus on your desktops. You have a network firewall guarding your perimeter and personal firewall software guarding the client PC's. You have antispam filtering out unsolicited email messages, and antispyware blocking...read more

 
 
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