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Features

• How to compartmentalize WiFi traffic with a VLAN

  Virtual LANs have long been used within enterprise networks to create logical workgroups, independent of physical location or LAN topology. This tip describes how to use these same VLAN capabilities, found in both wired and wireless devices, to tag ...  Continue Reading

• Configuring privilege levels

  This section of the chapter excerpt focuses on supporting multiple administrative levels of router configuration.  Continue Reading

• Spotlight article: Domain 8, Laws, Investigations and Ethics

  Get a detailed introduction to the concepts of CISSP exam Domain 8, Laws, Investigations and Ethics.  Continue Reading

• Securing Windows Server 2008: Installing and turning on BitLocker

  Aaron Tiensivu covers steps for installing and turning on BitLocker in Windows Server 2008 in this chapter excerpt.  Continue Reading

• Information Security Blueprint

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• Understanding security risk management: Criticality categories

  Security risk management involves a sober assessment of your client's business operations and the relative security risks of each. Once the need for security risk analysis has been recognized by your client, the next step is to establish catageories...  Continue Reading

• Snort.conf output options

  Snort offers functional equivalents for FAST, FULL and SYSLOG command line output modes, as shown here.  Continue Reading

• Ethical hacking tools and techniques: Information gathering

  This portion of a tip on network penetration testing and ethical hacking tools and techniques discusses information gathering for security consultants and value-added resellers (VARs).  Continue Reading

• Ethical hacking tools and techniques: Password cracking

  In this portion of a tip on network penetration testing and ethical hacking tools and techniques, security consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) will learn about password cracking.  Continue Reading

• Balancing the cost and benefits of countermeasures

  The final tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book "The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage published by...  Continue Reading

• Network-based attacks

  The second tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage published ...  Continue Reading