Archive for the ‘Security’ category

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Preparing for the GSE multiple choice written exam

October 7, 2010

My approach to the multiple choice exam, was to treat it like any normal 500 level SANS exam. My target – life-, work- and proctor-willing, is to take the exam on Saturday the 20th March 2010; which is exactly 42 days from now. As we all know 42 is the mean of Life or is that [...]

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Why use old tools in the GSE?

October 7, 2010

A great question was posted to one of the SANS’ lists on the practical requirements I felt it was worth while publishing as it covers and answers a question I though about but never asked. The Question: I’ve just had a quick look at the site you link to and would be interested to know [...]

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“Don’t need AV, we have a firewall”

July 12, 2010

A friend stopped by to ask if security suite x was any good or not. This led onto a conversation about a place she was working that wasn’t running any AV on windows machines. The rational behind this came from a 3rd party IT support guy  who said “you don’t need AV on the Windows [...]

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Regaining reputation after defacement

June 23, 2010

After the defacement and clean up, I was going about my normal business when a couple of friends noted that select pieces of reputation software are highlighting the site as either a phishing site or malicious content. This means folks would be blocked or have WARNING EVIL signs as they attempted to connect to this [...]

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From China with Love

June 20, 2010

I received two gifts from a family member returning from China. It was a lovely thought and I was touched by the gesture. Both items are of the geek variety and bought from stalls, one a ball point pen with a built in 2GB USB stick that can act as a voice recorder and the [...]