Wireless internet access is everywhere these days. Everyone from restaurants and bars to the average Joe Homeowner has some sort of wifi network set up. The problem is that they set up these networks without giving security a second thought (or even a first thought in most cases). I was at the TRISC conference last month and heard […]
Logs are one thing that I think are severely underutilized by most systems administrators. Most of us have taken the first step by actually logging the data, but neglect organizing it into any sort of manageable form. You’ll probably argue that any hardcore *nix admin would be able to take the raw logs using grep, […]
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work looking at various vendors for the vulnerability scanning portion of PCI compliance (PCI Requirement 6.5). I’ve been talking to many different companies. Some sell tools and some sell services. We’re looking at vendors to either supplement or replace our current tool set. The only real specific requirement […]
