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PodSnacks: CHAP vs. PAP

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today, we continue the PPP -related series with a brief look at the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) and the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). These are somewhat older authentication strategies that are becoming less important Read More...

PodSnacks: Password

Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Let's talk about passwords. In today's PodSnack, we bring back an oldy but goody: Gary Kessler. Gary now teaches at Champlain College, but he used to teach for us, and back then he created some of our ExperTech titles. Today's snack is an Read More...

PodSnacks: Hashing Function

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we'll just put out a basic concept that is likely to feature prominently over the next few weeks. Our CEO asked every instructor in the company to create a few snacks for you, and a lot of the ones I have been getting appear to have a security Read More...

PodSnacks: Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Last Friday we looked at business continuity planning (BCP) and why it is so critical to today's organizations. A subset of BCP is the whole realm of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP). In today's PodSnack, Michel and Mark explore DRP and discuss Read More...

PodSnacks: Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Business disruptions can be catastrophic. If you think of a company (or any organization) as a small machine designed to take some set of resources, transform them, and deliver them to those who need or want them, then anything that can disrupt the performance Read More...

PodSnack: Trojan Horse

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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It's been a while since we've covered security topics, so we're going to go back to that space today. In today's PodSnacks, Michel (that's me) explains what a Trojan Horse is, what it can do, and how to avoid them. By the way, we still Read More...

tHAWT Episode #118: Can 0 + 0 > 0?

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 7:46 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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For this episode, which fell on the start of the Summer Olympics 08/08/08, we have Mark , Michel and Myself . As well as the Olympics the Black Hat security conference was drawing to a close and there were still some more 2nd quarter numbers being released. Read More...

PodSnacks: Encryption Concepts

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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We've talked a bit about security in some of our PodSnacks. Let's wander back to that area and spend a bit of time talking about encryption . Encryption is very important any time we are sending information that we want to keep private to places Read More...

PodSnacks: Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Our series on routing protocols is essentially complete, although we are likely to come back and fill in some technical details. We have some outstanding requests for information on MPLS and BGP. For now, however, let's go back to a few basics. In Read More...

PodSnacks: Host-based vs. Network-based IPS/IDS

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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We start a new week with a continuation of the theme we started last week: security. In this episode, Mark and Trevor take you through the difference between a Host-based and a Network-based IPS or IDS . You can listen to (or download) the PodSnack by Read More...

PodSnacks: Intrusion Prevention Systems

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Our security theme continues with a discussion of about Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). Mark and Trevor take you through the basic difference between an IPS and an IDS . You can listen to (or download) the PodSnack by clicking here , or you can use Read More...

PodSnacks: Intrusion Detection System

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Time to carve out a new topic. We've recently received a few requests for particular subjects, and several of them touched on security themes. Mark and Trevor took some time to record a few of them. The first one is about Intrusion Detection Systems Read More...

PodSnacks: Firewalls

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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If you are connected to the Internet (and if you aren't, how on earth are you reading this blog?), then you might be in trouble. The Internet is a packet network that works on the datagram model: each packet is routed independently and all of the Read More...

VoIP Security Raises Its Ugly Head

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:04 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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For some time we've known that there are issues related to deploying VoIP and IPT systems. One of them is powering the phones. Of course there are solutions for that, most notably Power Over Ethernet ( PoE ). Another issue is E911 support. A great Read More...

Security, Productivity, Web 2.0, Mashups, and Business Intelligence

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:06 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Go ahead, dare me to write something that ties all of those terms together! Actually, it's rather simple. If you know what they mean, you can probably see the connection yourself. Security (in the information space) is that never ending quest companies Read More...
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