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 …

In the first part of this blog post we saw how events monitoring can be a very powerful, effective and at the same time affordable means to prevent system failures in a corporate environment. I believe that the process of …

An IT disaster in a corporate environment may cause a significant loss of money and may also interrupt business relevant processes during production. Data loss is one of the worst parts of an IT disaster which sometimes may not be …

In the previous post I wrote about the interesting questions raised due to the hacking of IT security firm HBGary. What should we learn from this incident? So, going back to HBGary – why were they apparently so easy to …

The story with all the interesting details about how security company HBGary was hacked earlier this month, published by Ars Technica last week, has made quite some noise with people concerned about IT security. It is a perfect – by …

In a previous post, I discussed the concept of e-mail archiving in the cloud and ran through some pros and cons of hosting your e-mail archive off-site. Today we’ll take a quick look at on-premise e-mail archiving. Having an on-premise …

Recently I wrote an article highlighting steps to take if you provide public computer access to your customers to ensure their security. The news then broke out that hardware key loggers were found at public libraries in Manchester. Public libraries …

Analyzing the data on 2010 from National Vulnerability Database reveals some interesting statistics.