Hiding Wireless SSID

How many of you folks do it, and why? It's my debate this week with one of my security folks, my slant being that hiding it gains nothing but unnecessary Service Desk involvement in helping folks configure wireless. http://blogs.technet.com/b/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-

RE: Hiding Wireless SSID

I hide the SSID's that are auto-configured by GPO. No point in broadcasting them and cluttering up the list the user would see. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hiding Wireless SSI

Re: New WSUS server

I'm happy to report that my new WSUS server is up and running and yes it was no big deal a bit of configuration / re-creating groups, moving devices but dead easy, thanks for the suggestion Stefan On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Stefan Jafs wrote: > I have 7 groups so no big deal, with 300+ de

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

True, but the percentage of "people who will muck about with something they shouldn't if they know about it" is substantially larger than the percentage of "people who really know what they are doing and will hurt you without much assistance". In general, we're trying to protect ourselves from the

RE: New WSUS server

FYI: SolarWinds released a new WSUS client troubleshooting tool: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/06/13/solarwinds-rolls-out-free-tool-t o-aid-in-wsus-client-troubleshooting/ From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Hiding Wireless SSID

Just remember hiding your SSID isn't going to stop passive analysis with Kismet... (J) but isn't a bad thing to do... Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Mon

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > BTW, just as a point of clarification, each measure of a security posture > does not necessarily have to be secure in and of itself.  Your security lies > in the combination of each of these measures, operating together.  There is > *some*

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

Indeed. :) * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Andrew S. Baker > wrote: > > BTW, just as a point of clarification, each measure of a se

RE: Hiding Wireless SSID

PCI compliance doesn't require or even say they recommend it: "Suppressing the SSID is not necessarily a security mechanism as a hacker can sniff the SSID using fairly trivial techniques. However, broadcasting an SSID that advertises the organization's name or is easily identifiable with the org

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

I absolutely never hide SSIDs since there is zero security benefit and just additional complexity for everyone. For some reason hiding SSIDs became the cute thing to do and the various talking heads picked up on it and added to their list of their "expert suggestions"... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM, David Lum wrote: > How many of you folks do it, and why? It’s my debate this week with one of > my security folks, my slant being that hiding it gains nothing but > unnecessary Service Desk involvement in helping folks configure wireless. > > > > http://blogs.techn

Re: Hiding Wireless SSID

That is one of the reasons I choose to configure in the GPO and hide it. When it is not hidden, a lot of wannabee "security experts" will just put it in their "consulting advice", and present themselves to the directors as having "discovered a huge security problem" and making me waste impor

RE: Microsoft Surface

So, MS is just abandoning the rather undescriptive word "Metro", in favor of "Surface", to describe its touch-screen interface, is that about it? Anything more than that going on here? Carl From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:02 PM To: NT System A

Re: Microsoft Surface

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Is here: http://surface.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscript

RE: Microsoft Surface

It's still the metro interface, which is part of windows phone, xbox, windows 8 and windows server 2012. The hardware is branded "surface". Carl Houseman wrote: >So, MS is just abandoning the rather undescriptive word "Metro", in >favor of >"Surface", to describe its touch-screen interface, is

Re: Microsoft Surface

I don't think they are trying to be 'more like Apple'. However, I think they are feeling sort of aggravated by some of their partners past behaviors and want to have a piece of hardware that puts the other HW venders on notice. So those others can be aggravated all they want but they seriously ne

Re: Microsoft Surface

Well, it's got a keyboard - that's half the battle, in the absence of a better interface (and voice definitely isn't it). Now, if it has a decent command line, I might take a look at it... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Is here: http://surface.com > > I had a chance

Re: Microsoft Surface

Good, now all it needs is VB6 and perl... Heh. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM, James Hill wrote: > Pro version will have CMD and Powershell J > > ** ** > > *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 June 2012 2:17 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* R

Anyone got a good link to the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer

Anyone got a good link to the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2010/01/19/how-to-detect-rds-specific-application-compatibility-issues-by-using-the-rds-application-compatibility-analyzer.aspx Link does not work for me after loggi

Re: Microsoft Surface

You can load perl on the Windows 8rp now so that's covered. You will have to experiment with vb6 yourself as I'm not putting it on my system :) On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Good, now all it needs is VB6 and perl... > > Heh. > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM, James Hil

Re: Microsoft Surface

Good show, Microsoft. It was an excellent product launch event and PR. Some details are still missing. Mostly prices. The truly innovative features: 1. A super-thin Windows RT version, which competes directly with the iPad. 2. A slightly thicker Intel Windows 8 Pro version. I suspect this will b