Monday, November 16, 2009

SEC + 2009 continued

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..........

SEC + 2009 classdate (11/09/2009)

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