IT security ‘Best Practise’ in Australia, or better titled “Security through Avoidance”
Read More: IT security ‘Best Practise’ in Australia, or better titled “Security through Avoidance”Reading this article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/aisa_finding_infosec_bores_board_execs/) today was a reminder to me of the customers I talk to on a daily basis. Having worked in many countries previous to coming to Australia, it was very apparent that security was very topical for Northern Hemisphere companies, with standards such as HiPAA, SOX, J SOX, Basel II, PCI. Not…
Office 365 to take over the world? or at least business….
Read More: Office 365 to take over the world? or at least business….Interesting commentary on Office 365, I can see both sides of the debate and I believe everyone is somewhat correct in their assertions, many customers will migrate to Office 365, some will remain on the platform they have until support ends due to cost of migrating to a new platform when it doesn’t offer anything…
Apple Tablet and PC sales exceed Dell/HP combined, largest PC company by volume?
Read More: Apple Tablet and PC sales exceed Dell/HP combined, largest PC company by volume?Tablets contribute around 50% of all PC sales and why Apple now make up the biggest part of the current PC market having a significant lead over number two (Lenovo). http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/02/05/apples-195-percent-share-of-global-pc-tablet-sales-now-larger-than-dell-hp-together Combining Tablets with the traditional Desktop and Laptop makes sense, iPads were referred to as consumption devices for a long period after being released…
IT's dirty secrets?
Read More: IT's dirty secrets?Came across this article today, which though a little sensationalistic was not far from the mark regarding your IT department. http://m.itworld.com/it-management/402124/6-dirty-secrets-it-industry?source=ITWNLE_nlt_today_2014-02-02
Thinking about Active Directory Recovery
Read More: Thinking about Active Directory RecoveryProbably the most utilised and under considered software component in your organisation. Microsoft Active Directory underpins almost every authentication activity. Workstation login Printer Email Access Federation to external resources File access …
Configuring ‘Fusion IO’ without a specialised ‘Hybrid Hard Drive’
Read More: Configuring ‘Fusion IO’ without a specialised ‘Hybrid Hard Drive’My main PC hard drive recently failed leaving me data less and with no PC to run Steam games from. Luckily most of my data was already replicated to a central NAS and other critical data shared between “Google Drive” and “Microsoft SkyDrive” so the loss was restricted to save games …. noooooooo …… Skyrim…
Interesting Vulnerability in Office 365
Read More: Interesting Vulnerability in Office 365Stumbled across this interesting link today regarding Microsoft Office 365, http://adallom.com/blog/severe-office-365-token-disclosure-vulnerability-research-and-analysis/ Its expected that all software has inherent flaws as its impossible to code for every possibility without many iterations. The scary aspect of this problem though is that as organisations move towards Cloud based solutions for storing business critical and sensitive data, the likelihood of data being…
Gmail Delete All
Read More: Gmail Delete AllMarking all email as ‘read’ in Gmail? My issue has been the huge number of unread emails displayed on the IOS Gmail icon. There is a great article here on how to remove the annoyance of email status without opening each and every message. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-to-mark-all-unread-emails-as-read-in-gmail-and-more/80754
Intuitive Windows Error message #1
Read More: Intuitive Windows Error message #1Intuitive Microsoft Windows 7 error message #1 Working on my laptop this morning I discover an issue with VMware Workstation 9 having uninstalled without any prompting from me. Whats odd is that my laptop was disconnected from power and in sleep mode when this uninstall occurred as starting up VMware was the first activity attempted…
Single Label Active Directory configuration
Read More: Single Label Active Directory configurationIts recently come to light that many of the new Microsoft products will not support configuration in a Single Label Active Directory (SLD), this configuration is where Active Directory domains and DNS name is simply named ‘Customer’ rather than ‘Customer.Com’ or ‘Customer.local’ – this is a fairly common practice for older Active directory implementations where…
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I am passionate about Australian organisations improving their cyber security posture, where possible I want to help improve by sharing the questions that I am asked along with some answers, there are many cyber security experts who have a vast amount of knowledge to share, if I can help to aggregate some of this then it is achieving my objective to improve the security posture for all businesses.
I am a current member of AISA Australia (Melbourne), and though I am not a cyber security expert I am a Microsoft Cyber security Expert by certification. I am an enthusiast and continue to learn every day from every conversation I have.
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