Common Lower Layer Protocols – ARP
One of the most useful protocols to understand especially when troubleshooting networks is that of the address resolution protocol. This is used to map internet addresses to hardware addresses …
The Importance of the Software testing Cycle
If you’ve ever worked on a large IT project which has it’s own testing department, then you know it can be quite time consuming work. What’s worse you can …
The Security Dilemma – Passwords and Authentication
For those of us who’ve worked in IT for a few decades, the whole idea that we still use passwords as a means of authentication is quite remarkable. I …
Coding a Football Computer Game
Coding sports games is not as simple as it sounds at least not to produce a really professional product. The easiest tasks involve management games like Football Manager which …
Computer Extortion – Common Techniques
Attacking large corporate websites, either through sabotage because the attacker is a disgruntled employee or disagrees with the company’s ethos, or to extort money from the company is becoming …
Management Review of an ISMS
It is important that management be involved in all stages of developing an ISMS for your business however there is a formal stage where they must review the documents …
Creating an Information Security Standard using BS 77999-2
This British Standard has been ready for business managers and their staff to provide a model for setting up and controlling your stresses an efficient Information Security Management System …
Investing in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a powerful tool which helps to make online meetings very close to reality. This is because the cloud services are scalable and flexible which is very …
Forgotten Tools – Microsoft Log Parser
In 2000, an internal test tool was written which was expected to be used by only two or three people. It started as something quite simple, little more than …
Introduction to DNS (Domain Name System)
The Domain Name System or DNS as it’s more commonly known is a huge distributed database that is used primarily by TCP/IP based applications to resolve host names and …