best practices

The National Security Agency (NSA) recently published a report, "Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure" (PDF) in which it makes numerous recommendations designed to help home computer users avoid malware and other common problems. Link Removed

If you’ve been looking for just the right motivation or evidence to convince your company’s IT department to upgrade to Windows 7, this may be it. The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a datasheet of best practices for keeping your computer and network safe and secure, and one of the...

An anonymous reader writes "In a document available from the NSA (warning, PDF file), that organisation advises users to upgrade to Windows 7 as part of their Best Practice for Securing a Home Network. No mention of BSD or Linux so I guess the Slashdot crowd will just have to bite the bullet and...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows DNS resolution. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker gained access to the network and then created a custom program to send specially crafted LLMNR...

My friends on the patterns & practices team are working on a cool new project that we want to share with you. The Link Removed provides guidance for building enterprise SOA-based composite service applications with design and implementation patterns for service discovery, composition, and...

Hi all -- We're pleased to announce the release of the new Link Removed due to 404 Error. Fully revised and updated from the first edition, which was released in 2009, this edition focuses on best practices for prioritizing and testing security updates before deployment within your...

Hi All.. Sorry about sort of double posting however this is a more defined question on what to do. I hope it's ok :-) I have a group of people who are using a remote desktop program and all their actions must be logged at a central storage. That's no problem however my users should not be...

Recognize the worst traits of programmers everywhere and save yourself from developer hell Being a good developer takes a lifetime of training and practice. But without proper discipline, even the best programmers risk falling prey to their worse natures. Some bad habits are so insidious that...

Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services partners with the Security Talk Series to describe the best practices for designing and deployment secure applications in the Azure platform. Related resources: Whitepaper: Security Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure...

Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services partners with the Security Talk Series to describe the options for controlling access to information stored in Windows Azure Storage or in SQL Azure. Related resources: Whitepaper: Security Best Practices for Developing Windows...

Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services partners with the Security Talk Series to describe the security features of the Windows Azure platform, resources available to protect applications and data running on the Microsoft cloud and SQL Azure security and authentication...

Severity Rating: Moderate - Revision Note: V1.0 (December 14, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an authenticated attacker sent a specially crafted...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an authenticated attacker sent a specially crafted network message to a computer running the Exchange service...

More: Captain Jack's IT Blog: Best Practices for Creating a Secure Guest Account

Analyst Gartner has recommended six practical steps required for bestpractice Windows 7 migrations. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Hello everybody, I got a POS software for my business and the software requires a server so I bought a server. The server has windows server 2008 installed. My problem is that I'm not familiar with this OS and in Puerto Rico is pretty hard to find knowledgeable people for this. I'm pretty...

Overview Today we released MicrosoftLink Removed due to 404 Error. This is different from other Microsoft Security Advisories because it's not talking about specific vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Rather, this is our official guidance in response to security research that has outlined a...

I used to try to keep all of my drivers up to date with the latest release. Earlier this year my video card died. I found out that there had been a bad driver released that altered fan operation. I think that may have been the real cause of the card failure. Since then I've wondered about that...

Link RemovedWhen we asked you*Link Removed, one of the top three most requested topics was How to Unit Test Workflows. On this episode, I'll show you how to test Simple activities using WorkflowInvoker Complex activities with bookmarks and WorkflowApplication WorkflowServices...

Link Removed Ensuring that applications work well with Windows Power Management is a vital step in providing a solid end user experience and reducing IT energy costs. Key advantages of following the guidance and best practices are: Extended battery life for users of mobile computers...