CCNA-Security Study Blog

Disaster recovery illustrated

webmaster — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:26:26 +0000

Web 2.0 Compliance

webmaster — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:35:59 +0000

Regardless of the industry regulations an organization is subject to, most require member firms to be able to identify
employees, even if they use “buddy” names, control content that might be construed as advertising or advice and
archive all electronic communications. However, in practice not many firms are able log content posted to Facebook
or Twitter, let alone try to control the content of the actual message.
Within some industries this may even be taken a step further where creating ethical walls between business functions
is a required element of compliance. Complete, of course, with a full audit trail of who joined the “conversation”
and when, how long they stayed and when they left. Although the majority of these regulations are centered in
the banking, finance, healthcare and energy industries, most businesses are governed by a set of regulations that
demand that best practice be followed.

Just a snapshot of these regulations include:

SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4 and NASD rule 3110	Organizations must retain records of communications related to business.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)	Requires that the content of communications should be scanned for sensitive content that should not be sent in clear text – e.g., personally identifiable credit information; as well as content that should never be sent via public communications channels
FINRA Notice 07-59	Ethical walls requirement between research and investment banking departments
FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)	Requires the storage of business records in whatever medium they may have been produced or stored. Email and IM are electronically stored information. Posts to social media sites must be preserved if reasonably determined to be discoverable.
Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA29.7)	Demands the retention of records with relation to business activities, regardless of its medium of creation.
MiFID and FSA Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (EU)	Specifically requires the retention of electronic communications conversations when trades are referenced.
FERC Order No. 717	The goal of this order is to create an ethical wall between the marketing and transmission functions of vertically integrated companies. Retain communications for 5 years. Plus, if communications takes place, it must be made public immediately.
CFTC & NFA Compliance Rule 2-29 Supervisory procedures for email and Web. NFA Interpretive Note 9063	If a Member or Associate hosts a blog, a chat room, or a forum where futures or forex are discussed, the Member or Associate is required to supervise the use of that community. This requires, at a minimum, that the Member or Associate regularly monitor the content of the sites it hosts, take down any misleading or otherwise fraudulent posts, and ban users for egregious or repeat violations.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)	Businesses must preserve information relevant to the company reporting.

Wanna see how long it might take a computer to crack your password?

webmaster — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:54:56 +0000

THE CISCO MIND SHARE GAME FULL VERSION IS AVAILABLE NOW!

webmaster — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:46:16 +0000

The Cisco Mind Share Game is the most comprehensive Learning Game from Cisco yet! This fun and challenging game covers more than half the content of the CCENT / CCNA exam. It was designed to reinforce a variety of standard networking skills and help you practice these new skills in preparation for CCENT and CCNA Cisco certification exams.

The Mind Share Game FULL version covers 15 topics including:

Binary number
IOS fundamentals
IP Addressing
Ip routing
NAT and PAT
The osi model
Subnetting
Swith operation and behavior
Wireless

Achieving a high score in the game requires a keen understanding of the technology, quick recall and recognition, and shrewd gaming strategy. The Cisco Mind Share Game is a great way to improve your speed and accuracy on Cisco certification exams and have fun at the same time! Be one of the first to own this entertaining learning tool from Cisco…you’ll see immediately why thousands of networking professionals use learning games as the killer app in their exam preparation arsenal.

Download and play the Demo Version for a preview of the Mind Share Game.
The Demo version features 5 of the FULL version’s 15 exciting sections, each playable at 3 levels of difficulty. It will leave you wanting more and now more is available in the FULL version.

Ref:

https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-3820

CCNA Security 640-553 Cert Flash Cards Online available

webmaster — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:12:44 +0000

The CCNA Security 640-553 Cert Flash Cards Online provides a concise review of all objectives on the IINS exam 640-553. This online exam preparation tool consists of a custom flash card application loaded with 250 total questions that test your skills and enhance retention of exam topics.

Questions are organized by exam objective, allowing you to focus your study on selected topics. You can choose to view cards in order or at random, and you can create custom sets from the entire bank of cards. The engine provides you with the ability to mark each question correct or incorrect and provides a detailed score report by category at the end of the exam. You can even write notes on each question and then get a printable PDF of all your notes aligned to the relevant questions.

These robust features make this a truly unique learning tool:

. Test your knowledge by entering your own answers

. Grade your answers against the correct answer

. Create custom question sets

. View detailed score reports

. Enter and print notes for each question

. Use on any device that has a web browser and Internet connection

CCNA Security 640-553 Cert Flash Cards Online is an online, internet-based service, available in both desktop and mobile device formats, allowing you to test yourself at home, at work, or on the go.

System Requirements:

Web browser and Internet connection

US: $24.99 / CAN: $29.99

1. Describe the security threats facing modern network infrastructures

2. Secure Cisco[r] routers

3. Implement AAA on Cisco routers using local router database and external ACS

4. Mitigate threats to Cisco routers and networks using ACLs

5. Implement secure network management and reporting

6. Mitigate common Layer 2 attacks

7. Implement the Cisco IOS[r] IPS feature set using SDM

8. Implement site-to-site VPNs on Cisco Routers using SDM

source: http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587058588

Change your IP address for testing purpose : free VPN service

webmaster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:58:31 +0000

Sometimes you need to change your IP address to see what others see of your network.

You can use the Loki Network utility to change your IP address and do some testing :

"Loki Network Project is free VPN service and SSL based free VPN server. It is an opportunity to protect your private data (IP address, e-mail/FTP/HTTP passwords, web-sites visited, uploaded/downloaded files and etc…) and bypass certain Internet access limitations you may have at your location.

An example, free Public Loki VPN Service allows you:

- Protect your data from being intercepted by various network sniffers in your LAN segment
- Safely bypass traffic interception and analyses on corporate, ISP or even country level firewall

Bypass any limitations in visiting web-sites or any other Internet services (if access to Loki VPN Servers is not blocked directly).
Loki Network Project can suggest two scenarios to protect your private data:

To use our Public VPN Service that includes set of Loki VPN Servers located in different countries. Guest access to our public service is free to use.

To create your custom service based on your own copy of VPN Server installed on your dedicated or home server. Community version of Loki VPN Server Desktop Edition is free for download and use.

According to all scenarios you have to download and install our free VPN Client software used to help you to create your own security schema.

Download it here : Version 1.2.0.9 Size 4 MB

Other useful link : http://www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm

Networking Essential Free Poster !

webmaster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:06:03 +0000

A free Networking Essentials Free Poster with cable types, Osi Layer, Protocles, Network Topologies, …

SDLC : Systems Development Life Cycle Poster

webmaster — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:46:21 +0000

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or Software Development Life Cycle, in systems engineering and software engineering relates to models or methodologies, that people use to develop systems, generally computer systems.

OSI and the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model Poster

webmaster — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:29:31 +0000

Free OSI and the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model poster from TextBuddy

Click for full sized image !

Cisco System Development Life Cycle Mindmap

webmaster — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:44:38 +0000