Archive for the ‘Management’ Category
Why Strong Passwords Are Important
Most systems out in the world are secure. Very secure. Thousands of administrators and technical personnel apply patches and configurations to millions of systems throughout the world on a daily basis. In August 2009, someone hacked into Google, but not through a technical vulnerability within the Google infrastructure.
A hacker found a personal email account. Similar [...]
In: Education, Management, Security · Tagged with: awareness, id theft, Management, passwords, protection, safeguard, Security
Online Identity?
If you have a twitter account, facebook account, wordpress site, use Gmail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, flickr, basecamp, photobucket, friendfeed, etc, get all your information backed up for free. You have until January 31st to get a free account with Backupify.
If you are downloading your files manually, daily, and keeping them off your home computer, [...]
In: Management · Tagged with: backupify, backups, blogger, continuity, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, google apps, twitter, wordpress
Keeping Up-to-Date
Always keep your systems up-to-date. This goes without saying, but a lot of production environments will delay implementing patches and configurations to allow for testing in development, QA, and pre-prod environments prior to rolling out changes on change control. Which is a great idea! But at the same time, it’s important to review what changes [...]
In: Management, Security
Welcome
Welcome to Information Armor, our purpose is to raise awareness to help you protect yourself, your family, your friends, and your organization. We search the Internet for information security programs, computer security programs, security awareness training, guides on configuration and hardening of systems, among many other things.
As the threat landscape shifts, so will our focus [...]
In: Education, Management, Security, Welcome · Tagged with: awareness, azitmgmt, informationarmor, Security, Welcome