RE: Deploying Microsoft patches

Try SUS. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp I don't know how good it is, as I am just deploying it myself, but if it works like it says on the tin. It should save you some time, and frustration. One other thing, over half the patches they announce, don't require

Getting the message to Testers

be used again Does anyone have any experience of this type of request? And if so have you any additional pointers that you'd like to share? If not, can anyone help me out with stuff I am missing? With thanks in advance James McGee CISSP Information Security Consultant Infosec LTD Tel: +44 (0)7092

WLAN Sniffer

Can anyone recommend a non-*nix wireless sniffer that I can download an evaluation of? There appears to be a good few out there, but I cant manage to find a downloadable eval. Thanks JM _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses.

Monitored.By.hAcxFtpScan

I found a un-managed ftp server floating around our network. I am quite sure the machine itself had not been compromised completely, but I found a directory in there with the above name. Has anyone else seen this before? Any help or advice appreciated. Cheers JM

Re: NT/Win2k Firewall Application

What purpose is the box going to serve? If it is for outgoing traffic only use the IP Security settings in W2000. Click the network adapter, go to properties, select TCP/IP, Properties, advanced, options, TCP/IP Filtering... Enable filtering, and select permit only.. This results in

Re: Security from a management perspective

Turn off every IT device in the building(s) See how long the company can last without it! Add up the daily cost of not being able to operate Try to elaborate on these subjects with regards your business Confidentiality Integrity Availability That should get you going - Original

URL Filtering

Hi I have been given the task of reviewing a clients URL filtering setup, they currently use Websense, which is currently licensed to around 2000 users They in fact have more like 20,000 users, so the default action on the licensing issue is to allow urls, once license theshold has been

RE: Licence Key Audit

The business software alliance has a tool that checks this kind of thing,. Never used it myself though. http://www.bsa.org HTH JM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 March 2002 02:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Licence

Where to start?

Hi I am being handed over responsibility of a e-commerce project which has in the past been run, maintained and implemented by an external contractor, who has kindly left no documentation whatsoever. He took it with him. Without wanting to divuldge too much details, the basic configuration is

Re: Software Firewall Development

Not wanting to seem un-helpful, but if you can;t answer the question yourself, surely you should be using you skills eleswhere? TPF, Back-Ice, Zone-Alarm, all do their job, why would you want a separate tool. If you know something about the areas you mention, by advice would be to write a

Re: Backup for win2k boxes in the DMZ

The last place I worked at had a great method... Put an addition NIC in them, that way you can keep it separate you can also use this for the admin of the site. In addition, this ensure that backups do not interfere with network to utilisation to and from the servers! Ensure that the servers

RE: How to read w2000 Security events

GFI.com, did offer a free version of their log analyser. It would help you translate what is going on in your log files. Maybe one day, the OS maker will see fit to translate all the crap into something readable. Good luck JM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: BCC email virus

Loads of virii would do this. I suggest that you try downloading, and installing another anti virus scanner. You never can have enough protection. On my Win98, machine, I run three, and I still managed to get a NIMDA file on my machine, although it did nothing, as I was not permitted to touch