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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on June 5th, 2009

Sorry to bring this up, but your computer is not perfect. Neither were the programmers who wrote the programs. Neither were the dude’s who designed the hardware. And of course the user is not perfect! Patches and Updates are used to correct programming errors and fix vulnerabilities in the software. It is difficult to keep [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on May 21st, 2009

Is your cell phone like mine? I have names and addresses of family, friends, co-workers and peers stored in mine. I also have my calendar on it. A Facebook app can be accessed and more information found. My ToDo list is stored on it. Other apps, such as OliveTree Bible Reader, Notes, Twitter all are [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on May 11th, 2009

It’s convenient to just turn on your computer, go get a cup of coffee and have the desktop waiting for you when you come back. Right? But do you realize that you are putting your sensitive data at risk when you do that? What if you lose your computer? One barrier to the Bad Guys [...]

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