Part of my plan to control web access is to funnel all communications through a proxy server with a whitelist of work-approved web sites. To do this, I have to set each method of connection to the Internet to use the proxy server. With Telus’ AirCard’s the process is simple since each connection type is persistent. What I mean by that is that when the card is removed from the computer, all of it’s settings still stay.
Bell doesn’t play that way. Read more…
Tags: Access, Bell, Control, Novatel, proxy, web
Posted by admin on Oct 22, 2008 in
Information Security,
Uncategorized Dark Reading and ScanSafe bring us this report about the top five targets for web-borne malware attacks. Guess who’s number 1? Yes, the Oil and Gas Industry. But why and what can be done about it? Read more…
Tags: attack, energy, gas, malware, oil, security, web
Posted by admin on Oct 21, 2008 in
Uncategorized …they can only provide answers. At least that’s what Salvidor Dali supposedly said. I think I also read that quote was attributed to Pablo Picasso as well. I read it on the Web. So, maybe that quote should be adjusted to read, “…they can only provide answers, and some of them are right!”
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When I took my current position, part of my mandate was to find a way to stop the field users from accessing web sites that could be the source of malware or viruses. (By the way, it should be virii, but what the heck.)
I found a way to do that by creating a white list in Internet Explorer. What I did was point all connections to a proxy server of 127.0.0.1 with the exception of the domain names and IP addresses of sites that the user needed to perform their duties. It worked.
But it wasn’t ideal. If a site changed any of the URL’s or IP’s then that also had to be changed on each and every field computer and had to be done hands-on by me. You can see the problem with that.
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Buzzwords are simply that. Some vaguely defined concept that attained a label that sounds cool at the boardroom table. Or are they? *dramatic music goes here*
With every buzzword there is something of substance. I seem to remember a buzzword something like “the paper-less office”. It drove an entire economy for years and still does today. We like the idea of less paper, not so much for ecological reasons, but for the simplified logic that less paper should mean less paper work.
I think we all know how that’s turning out.
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