By Jeff Fellinge, 12/04/2008
A host-based outbound firewall for a Mac? You'd be surprised what data leaks Little Snitch can reveal.
By Jeff Fellinge, 11/04/2008
If your users absolutely must have Mozilla Firefox for web browsing, consider this proactive approach for preventing security risks from potentially bad Firefox add-ons.
By Jeff Fellinge, 10/08/2008
For a compression utitility, PKWARE's SecureZIP has a lot to offer, including support for larger files, a robust digital-certificate–based encryption scheme, and integration with ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 10/08/2008
By Jeff Fellinge, 09/19/2008
Create quick backup or sync jobs between your workstation and a file server with SyncToy—a Microsoft PowerToy that synchronizes data fast and with more customizable options than ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 09/11/2008
Full-featured firewalls cost too much for small businesses and branch offices, but you can get the same security with pfSense, a stateful open-source firewall and router.
By Jeff Fellinge, 08/13/2008
By Jeff Fellinge, 07/24/2008
For granting fine-grained access rights to files, you might want to check out this package of tools and file systems, ACL, which helps sys admins assign permissions to users and ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 06/19/2008
Metadata in users' files can cause security problems. Use MetaViewer to reveal the included OLE metadata in Office 2003 and earlier documents, so you’ll know what metadata to ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 05/15/2008
Microsoft's free service, Safety Scanner, part of the Windows Live OneCare product group, can scan, defrag, and clean files.
By Elliot Harbin, 03/20/2008
Learn how to create a bootable, persistent configuration of Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition on a portable USB flash drive, making a toolkit that lets you customize your environment or ...
By Elliot Harbin, 02/21/2008
Create a USB 2.0 flash drive that boots a Live CD distro—it’s portable, fast, and easy to use.
By Jeff Fellinge, 01/10/2008
TrueCrypt encrypts a container you create on your flash drive, CD-ROM, or hard drive—and it lets you encrypt a hidden volume within another volume to thwart attackers.
By Jeff Fellinge, 12/20/2007
If you use a Mac or are responsible for the security of Macs within your organization, you need to check out Flying Buttress—a tool that allows granular configuration of Apple’s ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 11/15/2007
Thinking about taking the CISSP exam? Here are some tools that worked for one security professional, from books to boot camp and more.
By Jeff Fellinge, 08/15/2007
By Jeff Fellinge, 07/12/2007
KeePass is a lightweight, open-source password manager that security administrators can use to secure passwords to many different systems in one encrypted file.
By Jeff Fellinge, 06/21/2007
Get comfortable using VMs—a must-have tool for security administrators—by using VMware Server to run the Linux distribution BackTrack, which provides you with more than 300 ...
By Jeff Fellinge, 05/17/2007
Icacls is the new and improved version of the Cacls tool. Use this command-line tool to audit, modify, save, and restore file permissions.
By Jeff Fellinge, 04/25/2007
Microsoft Forefront Client Security is an ambitious security product that provides valuable protection against all kinds of malware. SMBs might find installation cumbersome, ...