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Protect Your Rights with Logon Warning Banners

You may often encounter a warning message when logging in to a business or government computer system. These warnings are cropping up everywhere and sound pretty ominous. “Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected and disclosed to authorized site and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign.” Sound scary? It should. But why do businesses feel the need to come off as some Orwellian Big Brother?

Setting up sFTP server on a Windows Domain

The goal of this project is to set up secure encrypted FTP services on a Windows based machine without integrating security with Active Directory (AD). The reason that I did not want to integrate with AD is that I did not want to allow normal Windows users access to the site. The site is for individuals external to my organization that need access to a location to upload and retrieve files without having to grant them access to physical data stores on the network.

Schedule a Reboot Of All Workstations

I have often been asked, "how do I cause all of my users to reboot their machines for changes to take effect?" A simple way to do it and to control it all from one location is to use PSShutdown from Sysinternals.

Lock down Active Directory in 10 steps

Any new security practices and standards should always be implemented with regard to the organization's security policy. A security policy is always first step and the central resource for effectively securing a network.

Protect Your Rights with Logon Warning Banners

Setting up sFTP server on a Windows Domain

Schedule a Reboot Of All Workstations

Lock down Active Directory in 10 steps

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