Musings of a Tech Geek: 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Test Prep Links:

IPSEC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec
DMZ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(computing))
Firewalls: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/firewall.htm

Cryptography:
X.509 certs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509
HASHING: http://www.ehow.com/how_2036699_what-hash-encoded.html
Block Cipher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher (Please scroll down to the bottom of the article and you will see links to all the diffrent encryption types we spoke about in class)

still more to come..........

Folks,

Thanks for a great class, As I promised below are some links to help with your test prep or you skills development.

first and foremost a great tool from Microsoft to test your windows environment security settings.

Microsoft Baseline Security Anaylzer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc184923.aspx

more good(and free) information from microsoft

Security guides for all of microsoft's operating systems
Microsoft Securtiy compliance management toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5534bee1-3cad-4bf0-b92b-a8e545573a3e&displaylang=en

more to follow........today

How to Setup Server Core
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753802(WS.10).aspx

How To Setup NAP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921070

Test Material: Microsoft will pull test questons often right from their posted Technet info, take a look at the following link you will find quite a bit on "Best Practices" for Server 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349801(WS.10).aspx

more to follow............................