RE: OT: blogging

Very Well Done James ! Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: blogging Congrats, James. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT

Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware

Bit9, a company that provides software and network security services to the U.S. government and at least 30 Fortune 100 firms, has suffered an electronic compromise that cuts to the core of its business: helping clients distinguish known "safe" files from computer viruses and other malicious softwa

RE: Password complexity question

We have just come out with a Security Awareness Training doe consumers. This is from that course (available on Home Shopping Network) (Rule #5 answers your question.) Here are Kevin Mitnick’s 10 Rules for Stronger Passwords  Don’t tell your passwords to anyone! Nobody should ask for your passwor

RE: Been a long day today, but I won...

Well done ! Stu -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Been a long day today, but I won... So, it's month end, and our UK office is noticing that emails are not processing outbou

RE: TechEd vs TechMentor

TechEd in that case. Stu From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TechEd vs TechMentor Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, PowerShell, VMware vCloud, Citrix XenApp. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.44

RE: Happy New Year everybody!

I can live with that !! Everyone thanks so much for your participation and sharing your knowledge. Let's make 2013 an awesome year ! Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: Kurt's current security recommendations for your computer - the 2012 update

Those friends and family need security awareness training. The FBI just came out with a site just for that, I stepped through it and it’s quite good. I would add that to your list: https://sos.fbi.gov/ Warm regards, Stu From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08,

RE: Goobye for Now

Sorry to see you go, and hope to see you soon. As you know we are in Tampa Bay here. Good luck ! Stu From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Goobye for Now For more years than I can recall, I'v

AWS errors defined: Funny but True...

Amazon Status Translation Sheet === **Single Availability Zone** : All Zones in a region **Degraded Performance** : Total service disruption **Elevated Error Rates** : No one can connect **Green Tick** : Up **Green Tick with (i)** : Total Service Outage **Yellow No

RE: My sons IT learning..

Not sure if you guys know this, but I wrote a whitepaper about whitelisting a little while ago. https://s3.amazonaws.com/knowbe4.cdn/Whitelisting_WhitePaper.pdf Have no product to sell you, and no dog in this fight, but I have been inside the AV world for a while :-) Stu -Original Messag

RE: Only took my 18 months...

Very Well Done ! From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Only took my 18 months... But effective today I get to add "Sr." to my Systems Engineer job title. W00t! David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548

RE: Pen test vendors

the security slant first. ☺ Dave From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]<mailto:[mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pen test vendors Hee hee! He’s been a (very) successful security cons

RE: Pen test vendors

...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]<mailto:[mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: 'rich...@gmail.com' Subject: RE: Pen test vendors Richard,

RE: Pen test vendors

Richard, If it’s a relatively straightforward outside-in vulnerability check that gives you the low-hanging fruit, combined with an hour of consulting by a white-hat hacker, than I can do that for you here at KnowBe4 for a –very- low price. http://www.knowbe4.com/products/vulnerability-scanning/

Global Server and Server OS Reliability

Guys, You have been great over the years with this survey, and we compare each year to the last. It would be fantastic if you could take a few minutes and fill out this year's survey ! We give away an iPad and an iPod, and the odds are pretty darn good. ITIC’s 2012 Global Server Hardware and S

OT: Keeping your family safe on the Internet.

Hi All, Ever since we released Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training, the single most mentioned feedback from employees who had done the training was: "How do I share this with my family? They need to know this!" We are working on a Home Security Awareness Training now. Which topics do you

RE: For your reading pleasure

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230198/9_popular_IT_security_practices_that_just_don_39_t_work?taxonomyId=85 As I read it I kept expecting read "Stu Sjouwerman says..." :) And the corresponding "do this" article by the same folks. http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/10-crazy-it

RE: Idiot

Read that, and looked very different at class action lawsuits ever after... :) Stu From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:pa...@mmcwm.com] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Idiot Check out John Grisham's book, "King of Torts." He pretty well skewers that type

RE: Where did my HD space go?

Some kind of monster log file hidden somewhere? -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Where did my HD space go? Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It

RE: Dave Aitel on end user security training

DANG ! I go away for a week, and then I miss this very interesting thread. [grumble] I wrote a blog post about this one, you might like it: http://blog.knowbe4.com/who-is-this-yahoo/ Warm regards, Stu From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:51 PM To:

RE: MS Updates Issues?

You can also email me at s...@knowbe4.com if Donald does not respond. Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Overly, Gregg [mailto:gr...@txstate.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Updates Issues? Can we kill this auto-repl

RE: Holy Marissa Mayer, Batman

Actually a good move. Stu From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Holy Marissa Mayer, Batman And good luck to her... http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/236553.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that IS

RE: Nah, you're not responsible while behind the wheel

The fact if there is written policy for or against this kind of behavior can make quite a bit of difference in liability. But you can be sued at any time for anything, been on the receiving end of that. :) Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:59

RE: Powerful New System Admin Tool: InstantRevert

aling functionality. ---Blackberried From: Stu Sjouwerman mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:57:38 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" mail

RE: Wannabe a Hacker?

If you notice any abuse you can ping me and I will delete the list member promptly. Warm regards, Stu From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wannabe a Hacker? http://preview.tinyurl.com/6tx9k6o Roger Wright ___

Powerful New System Admin Tool: InstantRevert

Guys, I'm happy to announce that KnowBe4 has released a powerful new system admin tool: InstantRevert. It's for experienced System Admins that understand scripting and know what applications they want to protect on the workstation, server or in the cloud. Call it the Porsche Turbo of system admi

RE: To notify, or not notify (LinkedIn)

I use LastPass all the time, have more than 1oo sites I log into regularly. And yes of course you should warn your users. We sent a Cyberheist News Flash to all our readers. PS, do you guys get my Weekly Tuesday newsletter? Recommended - no spam. http://www.knowbe4.com/cyberheist-news/ Warm rega

RE: Flame bait...

http://blog.knowbe4.com/new-cyberweapon-flame-cia-and-mossad-coproduction/ Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Flame bait... Indeed. Goes to show that any language can be made to do things which were

RE: new to VOIP

I did a bunch of research because I wanted to use VOIP in my new business. Ultimately, I decided to go hosted VOIP instead of taking it in-house. We wound up with RingCentral, and do not regret the choice. If you go in-house, VOIP has a series of vulnerabilities, and you should run something like

4 Ways To Phish Your Employees

About once a year I find myself submitting a page to Wikipedia, as I see something important enough to warrant a write-up for that could be useful for everyone. If you wouldn't mind, go over to Wikipedia, read the article, please rate it, and forward it to your friends. It will only take a minut

RE: Secunia Patch

is in mind, the sales guy from Denmark, is HIGH, HIGH pressure a total turn off. . . . Stefan On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Stu Sjouwerman mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: Guys, our new product is going to have third party patching included in June: http://www.knowbe4.com/pro

RE: NYC Traffic Ticket N(ID: 326889626)

This is so good I made it into a blog post !! http://blog.knowbe4.com/check-out-this-ny-traffic-ticket-phish/ Warm regards, Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NYC Traffic Ticket N(ID: 326889626) T

RE: Whitelisting

I wrote a white paper about whitelisting from the perspective of a system admin. If you are interested, here is a copy to the link of the PDF: https://s3.amazonaws.com/knowbe4.cdn/Whitelisting_WhitePaper.pdf Warm regards, Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April

Blast From The Antivirus Past - You may have seen this classic:

Remember MS-DOS Version 6? It was released March 1993. The new 6.0 had a lot of new stuff including a basic anti-virus program and a disk defragmenter. Other improvements were in the memory management area by the addition of MEMMAKER. Now, how did you get your anti-virus updates? You had to buy

RE: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

be a server OS or a workstation OS or a [selected set of] phone OS) is USD $62 (retail). A standard server license (which includes all the modules of System Center, not just SCCM) is USD $1,323 (retail, including software assurance). From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]<mail

RE: OT: Favour to ask

Excellent way to social engineer some one to click on a link and infect their workstation !!! Stu From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Favour to ask Yes, we all should have sandboxes for this kin

RE: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

> You can answer to the list or answer me offline at s...@knowbe4.com > > This appears to indicate you have an email address in the organization > that sells the tool you are recommending. > > Are you affiliated with this company? > > -sc > > > -Original M

RE: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

e recommending this one. > You can answer to the list or answer me offline at s...@knowbe4.com This appears to indicate you have an email address in the organization that sells the tool you are recommending. Are you affiliated with this company? -sc > -Original Message----- > Fr

RE: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

mending. Are you affiliated with this company? -sc > -Original Message- > From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 9:43 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins > > Guys, I

RE: Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

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Need Your Feedback - New Product for Admins

Guys, I'm back in the 'system admin' software game. I'm giving you a sneak peek of a new admin tool we are announcing this April called InstantRevert. I had a fresh look at your current environment. Users are still your #1 headache, and you continue to get "It worked yesterday!" incomplete hel

RE: Vulnerability scanning, and calling it a Pen test the rant continues

than bloated and adapted (you know .. the Symantec kinda way!) ;o) a From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]<mailto:[mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]> Sent: 14 March 2012 17:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vulnerability scanning,

RE: Windows File Archive [LIST ADMIN MESSAGE]

Let's put this thread to bed. Warm regards, Stu From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows File Archive Greg it was not me. I work nights now and keep out of the loop on a lot of stuff but I am still on t

RE: Vulnerability scanning, and calling it a Pen test the rant continues

en the false positives with those also, Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues S

RE: Vulnerability scanning, and calling it a Pen test the rant continues

That's what we do for our customers here. We scan with Nessus, but provide a shortlist of the real dangerous low hanging fruit and we poke around a bit, and do a conference call where we show them what the problem is. Warm regards, Stu From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monda

Scam Of The Week: Vacation Rentals

The bad guys have found a new way to scam people, and this exploit is something that can be applied to many different situations, so it would be a good idea to warn your users about this. The scam goes like this: 1) The bad guys go to a Vacation Rentals By Owner site like www.VRBO.com, where peopl

Warn Your Users

* Warn Your Users 1) This week, you will see a wave of Whitney Houston malware coming through, all trying to capitalize on her death. Think Before You Click! 2) Miscreants are sending tons of Valentines Day spam, laced with malicious links. Think Before You Click! 3) Viruses tend to c

The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt

* The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt Wow, this is actually major security news. I found this on the blog from Coretrace, and they said: "This week, McAfee, one of the two dominant forces in reactive, blacklist-based endpoint security, actively and unequivocally endorsed Application

Run pcAnywhere? TURN IT OFF.

* Run pcAnywhere? TURN IT OFF. You may not have seen this, but Symantec has advised all its users of pcAnywhere to literally turn it off, and wait for security patches. It's old code and it was stolen in 200g and was not updated much. There are several vulnerabilities in encoding and

RE: "Sort of a big day" - could have been slam dunk...

Good stuff ! Thanks for sharing :) Warm regards, Stu From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: "Sort of a big day" - could have been slam dunk... but it wasn't. * I was loaded for bear - I even brought my

RE: Data recovery

+1 Stu From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Data recovery Kroll OnTrack, not cheap but very good. John W. Cook Network Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

I Have 350 followers at Spiceworks, and this is the breakdown of their company size: Company Size KnowBe4 Follower Count 100-249 Employees 94 1-19 Employees 92 50-99 Employees 57 20-49 Employees 52 250-499 Employees 35 500+ Employees 20 So yeah, if you hit

RE: Size of this NT admin list

Yeah, Donald is right guys. There is a small very active group and a few thousands that just scan the topics and read the postings on a regular basis. Warm regards, Stu From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

RE: 30-second Flash Survey

- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 30-second Flash Survey Hi, we have a very quick question for you ! In a business environment, for an employee, what would you think is the ideal length in minutes to

30-second Flash Survey

Hi, we have a very quick question for you ! In a business environment, for an employee, what would you think is the ideal length in minutes to do their yearly online Security Awareness Training? It should be long enough to get them trained as per the requirements, but not too long to exceed the

RE: test

Everything works, it's just quiet... Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Osborne, Richard [mailto:richard.osbo...@wth.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: test Anyone home? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resou

RE: Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!

+1 Warm regards, Stu From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! I hope that everyone has a great Christmas. If you don't celebrate Christmas, then I wish you a great week

Regarding "Heads-Up: This Is My Last Issue"

Hi All, Many of you read WServerNews, so I wanted to prevent any confusion. Despite the fact I am going to stop writing WServerNews and start writing WindowSecurity News, I will still moderate and participate in the NTSYSADMIN list. Copied below is the Editor's Corner with the announcement. W

RE: Central Log Management/Monitoring Solution

h solution people are using as a central monitoring tool. Windows servers events Unix (AIX) servers events Firewall Events Proxy (Appliance) Events SAN Switches CISCO Switches CISCO Routers Services like (SQL/Oracle/Exchange/IIS etc) Dhiraj From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com<

RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

SSD! And you don't even have to defragment that anymore. LOL ! Warm regards, Stu From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? What a crock. If you have money to spare, put your temp

RE: Slow list response?

I see some error messages on the admin side. Will ask Donald to bounce either Lyris and/or server. Stu -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Slow list response? Anybody e

RE: Be careful what I wish for

Dear Santa, this year I wish for a nice fat bank account and a nice slim body. Please be sure to not confuse the two, like last year. Stu From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Be careful what I wish for I made a

RE: ?? on jobsites

We have had the best results with LinkedIn at Sunbelt. Warm regards, Stu From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ?? on jobsites Hope everyone is well. We are looking to post some job openings and also sear

RE: FTE swag?

eed to coordinate a time for them to be connected via VPN and then walk through troubleshooting steps. Sometimes working out the coordination and just getting connected is 30 minutes right there. The remote systems take more troubleshooting/fix effort than onsite systems. Dave From: Stu

RE: FTE swag?

Don't disagree, but where did the 4 hours per machine come from? Stu From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTE swag? 500+ PC's. 400 at the home office and 100 others strewn all over God's creation. How much FTE h

RE: Home Throughput Issue

Yeah, my first idea too. Swap out the NIC and see what happens. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Throughput Issue I think you meant to say "faster" rather than "slower" in that first sentence.

RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?

talled component found in *many* mobile devices across just about all modern platforms. Or am I mistaken? -- Espi On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Stu Sjouwerman mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? Google: #FAIL! There is a process insta

RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?

Ben, you are right, and my initial "making Google wrong" for this was somewhat premature. It's the carriers all right. Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: G

RE: Central Log Management/Monitoring Solution

Start here for the archives search: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/utilities/login/login/? Warm regards, Stu From: Haritwal, Dhiraj [mailto:dhiraj.harit...@ap.sony.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Central Log Management/Monitoring Solution

RE: Moving on, leaving the list for a bit

Congrats, and we hope to see you back soon !!! Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Moving on, leaving the list for a bit I just wanted to reach out to the list

RE: Backup Software

I know the CEO, and know they are growing fast. It's a good team. You could also look at Double-Take now owned by Vision. That Will get you D2D with offsite and has been in this market 10yrs+ Warm regards, Stu From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:38

RE: Would you drop AV for Whitelisting / Application Control?

Very good feedback Kurt! Anyone else ? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Would you drop AV for Whitelisting / Application Control? On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:18, Stu Sjouwerman

Would you drop AV for Whitelisting / Application Control?

ves budget. Your view? Input? Stu From: Stu Sjouwerman Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons? Oh, this an acquisition, that is why it's having such a high score! LOL From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:dhampsh...@gmail

RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons?

ts higher than a -3 in any category. :-) On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Stu Sjouwerman mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: Thanks Micheal. Anyone experience with any of the Whitelisting products in this InfoWorld Review? http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/test-center-revi

RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons? - Lumension

the whitelist? >>> Stu Sjouwerman >>> mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> 11/14/2011 >>> 2:16 PM >>> Thanks Micheal. Anyone experience with any of the Whitelisting products in this InfoWorld Review? http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/test-center-r

RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons?

and whitelisting is the best way to do it. -- Espi On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stu Sjouwerman mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: I'm referring to Whitelisting in the context of security. About 10 years ago, the ratio "Good code" versus malware was perhaps

WAS: Whitelisting Pros & Cons? - Application Control - Pros & Cons

w Cisco did it. It was extremely detailed and granular yet still easy to configure. You could allow a process to hit a certain registry key when only run by a certain user on Tuesdays IF they had on blue underwear. It was that granular. -Original Message----- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailt

RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons?

of "whitelisting?" --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:14:57 -0800 Subject: Whitelisting Pros &

Whitelisting Pros & Cons?

Guys, I am writing an article for WServerNews, and would like your public input. What is your experience with Whitelisting, which products you tried/use, and what experience you are having with this, likes and hates are all welcome !! Warm regards, Stu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: Antivirus Recommendations?

Paul, as one of Sunbelt's founders, you can take this with the required grain(s) of salt for built-in bias. Having said that though... When you have more than a few dozen machines, the Admin console becomes a big deal. I would take that as a heavily weighted part of the decision. VIPRE 5 just ca

Stupid iPhone 4S Security Loophole

You may have missed this, but there is a hole in Siri, the much-touted iPhone 4S personal assistant. The default setting for the new A.I. is "On", which means that even when a user's phone is locked, anyone could pick it up, hold down the home button and tell Siri to send texts and emails. OUCH

RE: Server room cooling units

We used Liebert at Sunbelt, but had regular outages with it, make sure that the company you buy from understand the concept of "preventive maintenance" Warm regards, Stu From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:04 AM To: NT System Adm

RE: SIEM solutions

Yeah, I would say Splunk would need to be on that shortlist a well. Stu From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SIEM solutions I've played with Nitro a little bit, and I'm familiar with LogRythm, although

RE: Print strangness

Rebooted the printer? LOL From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print strangness is default 'letter' defined as 8.5" x 11"? Shauna Hensala From: gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: ntsys

RE: Knowbe4 website

Hehe. I like pingdom better! :-) -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 10:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Knowbe4 website Hey Stu, what about monitis? :-) -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman

RE: Streaming media device

Funny you should ask. I just bought a new combo blu-ray player and LED TV from Visio. Both come with a bunch of applets that cover almost everything on your list. I subbed To VuDu, Hulu+, already am on Amazon Prime, it offers Netflix but also Blockbuster Streaming. Basically had it all for les

RE: Knowbe4 website

Hi Paul, It's not you. It was us. What happened? Our website lives in Amazon's cloud. So it's a VM, and this VM lost access to its hard disk, and was sitting in an infinite loop at 100% CPU trying to get access, and thus denying access to everyone. And the thing we used to monitor the site uptime

RE: Recommended Reading

Read it too, and it definitely is a great book, that combines work and pleasure. Kevin and I are talking about doing some things together... I have been busy recently with this... Stay tuned. Warm regards, Stu From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:38 P

First an apology

Guys, My apologies for being so quiet recently. The worst is that I only a lame excuse for it all, and I'm even embarrassed to admit it: The GFI IT team updated their OWA, and my carefully created Folders and Favorites got whacked, so I did not see the list when I logged in... ;-( Anyway, I'm bac

RE: What do you do when things go quiet?

Here's the first thought that came to mind.. Thoroughly test and update your disaster recovery plan. Test backups and see if they -actually- restore. Warm regards, Stu From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subj

RE: performance review software

We did some research into this when I was at Sunbelt, and we liked this one: http://www.sonar6.com/ Never got around to deploying it, but hey. Warm regards, Stu From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:44 AM To: NT System A

[LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot

Let's put this thread to rest? Thanks! Stu -Original Message- From: Robert LeBlanc [mailto:robert.lebl...@aanmpc.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Is the dash on your Dodge all cracked to Sh&%. Mine i

RE: Thought on malware cleaning

OK, I just could not stay out of this one. Someting like 60-70% of these infections are caused by social engineering, so why not prevent this from happening in the first place? Train those users within an inch of their life so that they will have nightmares even contemplating clicking on someth

[LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] your friends will envy you

Here is what Donald came back with: On Jun 28, 2011 @ 11:59 am, Donald Bittenbender wrote: After analyzing the Lyris settings, I see one level of spam filter checking Lyris does by default is SPF checking. Currently the server is set to reject on SPF fail, however, if it takes more than 30 seco

RE: Help? Microsoft old antivirus update for $9.95 FOUND IT !

r the phone line -- LOL . " http://community.spiceworks.com/attachments/post/0005/0559/Full_Instructions___Order_Form_Old_AV.pdf Warm regards, Stu ____ From: Stu Sjouwerman Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help? Mic

Help? Microsoft old antivirus update for $9.95. Need to find it !

Hi All, I'm pretty sure I saw a thread with a link to a PDF with an old Microsoft antivirus ad where they offered 2 updates for $9.95. Been trying to find it but no joy. Anyone know where that was? Thanks in advance ! Warm regards, Stu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

* Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video

* Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video At a press event in Taipei this week, Redmond showed the next version of Windows, unveiling a dramatically overhauled tiles-based interface that they hope will be competitive in the tablet world. Microsoft marketing people must have gotten their fing

RE: from Cornelia

Will Kill. Stu From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 7:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: from Cornelia She apparently likes groups :-) John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families

RE: Today on SANS.ORG: Description: There exists a vulnerability in all versions of user.

Dang, this is SO in my nick of the woods it's scary. This is EXACTLY what we do in KnowBe4, train the users so they are less vulnerable. http://www.knowbe4.com/ Warm regards, Stu From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:19 A

RE: More cracker fun!

+1 They are not the only ones. There is another outfit that has done this for years with firewalls. They are called matousec and run the sam kind of racket where one has to pay for the "vulnerabilities" they find. More over, it looks like they make money from the links they provide to vendors. Cav

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