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Securing your Email – Understanding Public Key and Private Key Encryption
With Public Key Encryption, also known as asymmetric key encryption, two different keys, a Private Key and Public key are used simultaneously to both Digitally Sign and Authenticate an email message...
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Securing your Email – Assigning and Using a Digital Certificate for Secure...
In order to use a Digital Certificate for Secure Email, you need to install the Certificate in to your specific version of Outlook and assign it to the correct profile. This is usually the default...
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Securing your Email – Assigning and Using a Digital Certificate for Secure...
In order to use a Digital Certificate for Secure Email, you need to install the Certificate in to Thunderbird. Installing the Certificate is straightforward. Unfortunately, to use PGP – Public Key...
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Securing the Home Network – Wi-Fi® Security
Most Cable and Phone Company Internet providers are installing Routers with Wi-Fi® capability. Unfortunately, not all Carriers take Wireless Security seriously. Many early Carrier Wi-Fi® Router...
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Securing the Home Network – Guest Wi-Fi® Networks
The newest Wi-Fi® Routers support both a Primary “Private” and a Secondary “Guest” Wi-Fi® network. This allows you to have two separate SSID’s, (the names of your Wi-Fi® networks), at the same time....
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Securing the Home Network – Show me your MAC ID please
Every network device has a MAC (Media Access Control) address. This unique twelve hexadecimal digit identifier is similar to either a phone number or social security number for your network equipment....
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Securing the Home Network – Wi-Fi® Protected Setup™
Almost every modern day Wi-Fi® Router and Access Point supports Wi-Fi® Protected Setup™ which is an optional hardware method for quickly enabling security on a Wi-Fi® network. As you may recall, you...
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Securing your Home Network – Close the Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi® Backdoor
In an effort to make data sharing easy, many Wi-Fi® devices support both Infrastructure Mode connections and Ad-Hoc peer-to-peer connections. Infrastructure mode is most common and is when a Wi-Fi®...
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It’s 2013 – Do you know where your sensitive corporate data is?
Data File Security There was a time in the 1970’s through about 1995, before the modern Internet, when the person who managed your Information Technology could say with absolute certainty that he or...
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Mobile Device Management – Containing The Mobile Invasion
Mobile Devices When Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” was walking through the Forrest, she exclaimed, “Lions and Tigers and Bears – Oh my.” Trust me when I say that most Information Technology Staff...
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