Microsoft does not want you to backup PST files Email is the internet’s original killer app and if your work depends on email then you are most likely using Microsoft Outlook as your email client. Your emails, tasks, calendar items …

In the previous blog post we saw how identity theft in a corporate environment can be a huge risk for a corporate environment and how the possible injection of malicious code can easily take place and go unnoticed on a client …

Stealing someone’s identify is one of the best known techniques for hackers to access confidential information in a corporate environment. But how does it work? Why is it difficult to detect such intrusion attempts? What can be done to safeguard your …

One of the biggest problems users encounter when using PSTs is that they can corrupt. Because there are countless messages within a PST that could easily be lost when the file becomes corrupt, knowing how to repair PST files is …

There are many dangers that a company might face on a day to day basis and while some of these can be mitigated by enacting effective policies, this will only help up to a certain extent. Consider the Web for …

Data thefts in corporate environments happen quite often although many of them remain unnoticed for a long time. Small and medium sized organizations are usually the most badly affected, especially when no security measurements are in place within the IT …

One of the most hated security policies is that of asking users to have different passwords for each different service they make use of. Many see this as unnecessary because they reason that if their chosen password is strong enough …

A successful patch management process is a critical part of any network, no matter how many or how few systems you are maintaining. There are a few key things you should include to maximize the effectiveness of your patching process, …

Patching is a very common term in IT system administration. So what are patches for and how important are they for IT security? Generally patches are software updates which fix certain bugs in the software. Nowadays theses patches also contain …

In this last blog post of this series I’ll provide a real example which explains how a server can be monitored efficiently with events monitoring. Let us say that there are three main applications (a mail server, a database management …