An IT Security Policy should be a place to standardize and document
company-wide security practices. This checklist provides a
comprehensive list of issues that should be covered and recommends a
variety of security policy best practices. Join the discussion for this
download to add your recommendations for a security policy.
Unfortunately, many small businesses fail to adequately protect their
critical data, or they have aging storage devices that should be
replaced with newer, more efficient technology. This chart compares
common devices within three backup technology categories: optical, hard
drive, and tape. The chart outlines each product's important
specification, advantages, disadvantages, and primary usage.
The default installation of Windows Server 2003 is more secure than
previous versions of Windows server, but that doesn't mean that your
work is done. Here is a list of 10 best practices that can help you
implement top-level security for a Windows Server 2003 system.
This sample chapter, taken from McGraw-Hill's Hacking Exposed
Windows Server 2003, provides detailed insight on how to fight
common hacking methods such as password guessing, eavesdropping on
authentication, subverting authentication via rogue server or
man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, and attacking vulnerabilities in
Windows-specific services.
Download the entire Security chapter from TechRepublic's Administrator's
Guide to Windows Server 2003 and gain valuable insights on best
practices for securing Windows Server 2003. The chapter provides proven
tips for securing Active Directory, leveraging Windows Rights
Management Services, maximizing group policy controls and more.
PHP has always supported a wide variety of extensions, which allows it
extend with new technologies. Developers take advantage of this
flexibility to create useful add-ons to the language. This download
lists some of the most useful PHP extension modules, discussing how
they may be used and the configure-time arguments needed to activate
them in the UNIX version of PHP.
When users forget their Internet Explorer Content Advisor passwords,
you can't reset the password without knowing the original password, and
reinstalling IE won't solve the problem, because the password settings
are stored in the Windows registry. This one-page task sheet shows you
how to quickly remove the IE Content Advisor password with a simple
Windows registry hack.
Here is a comprehensive document from project management guru Tom
Mochal that shows how the principles of portfolio management can be
applied to businesses in general, and even to business units such as
IT. This can help you decide how to put your money in the places where
it can make the most impact on your business.
Learn about the benefits derived from good VoIP collaboration tools and
how they impact the bottom line, as well as one company's use of
collaboration to improve customer service and employee productivity in
this Webcast from Shoretel.
For C# programmers, no single function generates more discussion and
more confusion than GetHashCode(). Hash-based containers use hash codes
to optimize searches. In .NET, every object has a hash code that is
established based on three specific rules. This chapter from Bill
Wagner's Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#,
explains how those three rules are applied and how their proper
application is essential to effective C# programming.
E-mail is one of the most pervasive business applications in the world,
which makes e-mail servers a major target for hackers. Use this list of
10 best practices to help get your Microsoft Exchange servers locked
down. Provide your own Exchange security tips in the discussion of this
download.
Download this Siebel Systems white paper and learn the five key
components of a successful customer relationship management (CRM)
initiative and how they can improve your organization's decision-making
ability.
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