Steve Riley on Security
 
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Do you need RMS/IRM in Office for Macintosh?

2008-04-23 22:34:16 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Please let me know if this is a feature you'd be interested in. We're looking to build the business case to develop it, and the best way to do that is for you, our customers, to let us know Also, if any of you want to deploy RMS now but can't because there's currently no Mac support, I especially need to know. Thanks
 
Tags: mac support, deploy rms, develop, feature, business, customers
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...information stored on your PC. Mining online game accounts might be pretty profitable, you know. Consider the number of people who pay real money for virtual (=fake) stuff in World of Warcraft, Runescape, and whatever else. I suppose losing their passwords to picture frames might help such people regain a tenuous foothold on reality
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...information on how to protect your computer, yourself, and your family. However, we cant do it alonewe need your help! Maybe its already happened to many of you; if not, itll happen soon: youll become a security consultant for your FFN. Thats right, you. Stop glancing around the room, dont slink down in your chair and hope I wont see you....
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains

2008-02-11 18:03:17 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
I've seen some conversations lately about the Power Users group -- how powerful is it, really, and why did we remove the group from Windows Vista That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you can elevate yourself to Administrator or SYSTEM. Vista includes a signed installer that allows...
 
Tags: power, power users, powerful, too-powerful power users, rights install software, software, install, install packages, install software
 
 
 
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?

2008-02-07 22:25:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...information security folk and auditors frequently have trouble working together. As I thought more about this, I began to wonder if maybe there's a better way to organize the entire security department It's useful if we take a moment and consider the definition of the auditing function. Here's mine Audits help us ensure that we are following...
 
Tags: information, information assets, information security, alignment folk, security alignment folk, information security department, alignment, security department, security
 
 
 
 
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Videos of some of my presentations

2008-02-05 18:14:38 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...security in depth TechEd US, June 2007 Making the tradeoff: be secure or get work done TechEd US, June 2007 Defending layer 8: how to recognize and combat social engineering IT Forum: TechEd Europe, November 2006 Windows Vista firewall and IPsec enhancements IT Forum: TechEd Europe, November 2006 All of my videos on TechNet Spotlight There...
 
Tags: videos, forum, data center, data, windows vista firewall, june, europe, november, combat social
 
 
 
 
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NAP case study published

2008-02-01 11:50:25 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...security solution. In response, it is deploying Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of Network Access Protection (NAP). After an initial deployment, help-desk call volume decreased by 75 percent, for a projected annual savings of more than U.S.$150,000 in maintenance costs Take a look at...
 
Tags: network, network access protection, nap, fulton county serves, faced network disruptions, county, help-desk call volume, infrastructure includes mainframes, multiple topologies
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft IPsec diagnostic tool

2008-02-01 11:39:04 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...information on systems and parses IPsec logs to deduce why a failure might have happened. Beyond IPsec, it offers trace collection for VPN, NAP client, Windows Firewall, Group policy updates, Wireless, and System events. The tool's diagnostic report derives its conclusions from the system logs collected by the tool during its analysis phase,...
 
Tags: windows vista enterprise, windows vista, windows vista business, windows, windows firewall, windows server, ipsec, tool, diagnostic tool
 
 
 
 
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FaxBox: the latest in password scams

2008-01-07 18:09:34 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Looks like spammers have found yet another way to worm (ha ha) themselves into the computers of the unsuspecting. In my junk email folder this morning, I saw this message From: Question It [mailto:question it@fanboxapps.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:34 To: Steve Riley Subject: Ratul has asked you a question on FanBox Ratul asked you a...
 
Tags: email, question itfanboxapps, email address, question, fanbox, junk email folder, faxbox, ratul, named ratul