Ridiculous places users store passwords?
Hey there Spiceheads! The creative team at Spiceworks Studios is making a fun commercial for our friends over at Ping Identity and we need your help! The topic? Crazy (some would say stupid) places...
View ArticleUsers w/ Admin Level Access on PCs/Laptops
We were a really small firm previously and didn't have a domain 10 years ago. It was common practice for everyone to be an administrator on their pc. Fast forward a decade, we have domain...
View ArticleEducational blog on how to avoid being Pwned.
http://www.alienvault.com/blogs/security-essentials/top-four-security-questions-to-ask-of-your-data
View ArticlePolicies and Tasks for Kaspersky
Attached I have an image showing how I have my KES console broken down. Once I created my structure I moved the policies and tasks to the servers and the workstations containers, made them active, told...
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Top 25 Most Overused Enterprise Passwords
Whenit comes to password security strength, some of us may as well walk around withour character combination stamped on our foreheads. For businesses, it can beeven worse! I found this article that...
View ArticleBYOI (Bring Your Own Identity)
BYOI... Is this the next phase of the "bring-your-own" movement? Can this help increase security? http://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2014/02/25/one-password-for-work-and-home-is-this-the-future/
View ArticleHIPAA Security Software Question
Hello all! This is my first time posting on here - I'm usually much more of a reader, but I'm a bit at my wit's end here, and finally worked up the nerve to ask to see if anyone would be willing to...
View ArticleTracking user login attempts by a specific user
I have two users that are being locked out of the domain accounts every Monday. I want to see where these accounts are trying to log in over the weekend but I'm not sure how to track specific account...
View ArticleA way to progressively increase lockout times in Active directory
Rather than the standard lockout times of 15 or 30 minutes I was wondering if there was a way to progressively increase the amount of time a user is locked out for mistyping their password. So instead...
View ArticleBest Endpoint Security out there...
Hello everyone,We are currently using Kaspersky in our environment and honestly I don't really like it. Its good and does its job with protection, but I seem to have to many annoying problems with it....
View Articleon Remote App Error message shows as see below. trying to connect Quickbooks
Your Remote Desktop connection failed because the remote computer cannot be authenticated . Certificate Errors The Following errors were encountered while validating the remote computers certificate(...
View ArticleSecurity Practices, how do you convince the dinosaurs?
So I have a Town Manager that refuses to believe that he should EVER have to change his password... that 8 characters is ridiculously long, and while I'm at it I should remove the need for a password...
View Articleaward winning stupidity
The other day I found out one of our clients has been using outlook contacts as a password manager.They win the dumbest user of the year award from my perspective, anyone have some comparable cascading...
View ArticleCisco ASA - Public IP Block List
We had a scare on our network today where we thought we might have had a PC with a Crypto Locker infection that, THANKFULLY, turned out to be only the Homeland Security virus and only on one PC. That...
View ArticleHIPAA: Can users share a windows logon? Or do you have to track their activity?
I have a dental office that has been using a single windows logon to streamline their operations. They use a information system that requires separate user login info and is trackable. Does HIPAA...
View ArticleSEP port scan attack is logged - Spiceworks unable to scan devices
I am unable to scan about 15 computers in the network with Spiceworks.Symantec Endpoint Protection logs a port scan attack and blocks all traffic from the SpiceWorks server for 600 seconds when an...
View ArticleRidiculous places users store passwords?
Hey there Spiceheads! The creative team at Spiceworks Studios is making a fun commercial for our friends over at Ping Identity and we need your help! The topic? Crazy (some would say stupid) places...
View ArticleKaspersky Endpoint Security 10: Block audio streaming option in WMP.
We are wanting to block all audio streaming in our office. I thought we had them all covered but I found out about this one today. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks.
View ArticleLooking for a free way to send secure email attachments
I was just told that we have data being sent out and coming in, via snail mail and fax, that needs to be changed to electronic. They are reports that go to (and come from) properties around the country...
View ArticleSSL certification
I have been delegated the responsibility of the re-certification of our sites SSL certificate. I am working on an apache server and I am trying to do a dry run first to get my bearings as I have never...
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