Security via Interguard
Filed under: Business, Mobile, Security, small business — Tags: Business, corporate security, Mobile, Security, small business —
Posted: 4:51 pm
5 January 2009
I have just had the heads-up from a good friend of mine to let me know that he will be sending over my copy of Interguard software for home, laptop and corporate security. All being well I should have the stuff over this evening and all things being equal will get something posted up over the next couple of days. As products go this is shaping up to be a great product with a very comprehensive range for features for such things as monitoring web access. DataLock which helps prevent data leakage from a business as well as laptop security so should your beloved laptop be stolen or lost then it can located, data retrieved and the notebook disabled from ever working again.
Awesome stuff so you’ll have the review as soon as I have it.
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New year, new start
Filed under: Business, Personal, Personal Develoment — Tags: growth, Personal, personal development —
Posted: 11:56 am
2 January 2009
For those who have followed this blog in the past you will know and see that I have been very quite since summer. The reasons for this are many but most of them are due to personal circumstances which have knocked my life completely off kilter and have no only taken a lot of physical time but it has also significantly hurt my drive on a day to day basis. This in itself is a self perpetuating downward spiral in which you don’t do certain takes or maintain aspects of your life because you haven’t got the “get up and go” to do it but then you end up resenting, even hating yourself for no doing it. Then as time goes by you end up putting things off repeatedly until finally they are way overdue and almost impossible to recover from. Why am I laying this on the line and telling you? Quite simply I have been there and have now vowed to turn things around, it is a hard thing to admit that things have gotten out of control but it is much harder, in my opinion, to recover from.
With that in mind I want to commit, publicly, to maintaining at least two posts a week here whether it tech news, geek stuff or just how things are going. 2009 is a new year and while this is not a new year resolution, it is a life resolution, I just thought that it was a damn good time to start…leave behind the old and move forward.
So let me start by saying happy new year to you, all the success for the future and remember if you want to contact me please use the form above.
Regards
Rob.
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Spam prevention
Filed under: Business, IT Support, Security —
Posted: 5:51 am
28 April 2008
Recently we had some problems with our DNS provider for the business which caused us to look at moving the domain over to another more reliable provider. In the end we decided to settle with hosting the DNS with pipex and while they may not have always had the best reputation they are one of the larger players, considering the problems recently meant that we had no email or website traffic we were not able to get caught with that again. All went well with the transfer as I made sure that all of the DNS records were live before the actual transfer took place so the transition was completely seamless. However, since then it would seem that the spammer capitalised on one oversight that I made during the transfer; this was SPF (Sender Policy Framework). For those that don’t know what this is basically it is a TXT record within DNS which defines the hostnames and/or IP addresses which can receive and send mail for the domain name it applies to. This TXT record is read by any mail server that can support it and should the email not have originated from the correct address then it is treated as spam and discarded as such. If, however, the mail originates from a valid address then it is processed as normal and passed on to the recipient. On the other hand if the recipient mail server does not support SPF then this information is simply ignored. Since I hadn’t got this information handy I was tasked with re-creating the SPF data which for those that have looked it is not the most straightforward thing to do however Microsoft have very kindly created a wizard on their website which takes out most of the work. The address is as follows: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/
Using this wizard you are able to enter your domain name and it will process the DNS record to see what settings exist with regard to mail servers and then guide you through the process of creating the SPF data. Over the past few years I have using a number of tools but this has to be the easiest to follow. So check it out, the more people that use SPF the less spam will be possible.
As always thanks for reading and if you have any questions then drop me a line.
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