You’ve probably heard the phrase “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. I want to introduce another in the same vein as that – “The Dumb, the Stupid, and the Unbelievable”. I’ve been an IT consultant for many years, and …
The average IT admin needs to be concerned about a wide range of security threats, such as the prospect of a security breach and denial of service (DOS) attacks. In this post we shall look at five steps admins need …
December 12, 2012 – the day that’s fated to be the ‘end of the world’. Humbug? Whatever your opinion on the Mayan prophecies, there are more important causes for concern this year that should get you brooding – particularly in …
Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful task automation framework that consists of a command-line shell and associated scripting language. On its part, the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) is built on Windows PowerShell in order to manage Exchange Server objects. Within EMS, …
Want to get 2012 off to a rousing start and be well informed on the top areas where you should be focusing your marketing strategy this year? We’ve got you covered this January with our FREE webinar. Webinar: The Top …
Are you logging? Do your servers, firewalls, routers, IPS systems, and applications write log files? Good. What are you logging? What do you do with those log files? Do you review them every day? Do you correlate them? Do you …
GFI Labs Blog, the research and information security news hub of GFI Software, is now part of the GFI domain. Formerly known as the Sunbelt Labs Blog, it is one of the industry’s go-to portals for security enthusiasts and IT …
Why would you need to buy fax server software when you have a fax machine that works just fine? That 90’s relic that looks so old-fashioned and quaint. Have you ever realized that the old manual fax machine on the …
Got servers? Then you need to perform server patch management. Not annually, not once a quarter, not when you feel like getting around to it. Microsoft releases patches on a monthly basis to make it easier for IT professionals to …
Email is not only business-critical, but it is one huge repository of unstructured data that contains key knowledge, workflow information and customer contact data. All this data can offer significant value to an organization even after it is placed into …
Let’s face it; most of us in IT spend entirely too much time in firefighting mode. We talk a great game about being proactive, and keeping ahead of issues; monitoring our systems for utilization and capacity so we can schedule …