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How badly would your daily activities be impacted if you lose your mobile phone? If you lost your mobile phone now, would you remember the telephone number of your spouse / relatives or friends to call them without your mobile phone? Would you be able to reconstruct all your contact numbers onto your new phone without tearing your hair? If you answer yes, welcome to the club of Minorities !! If you answer no, read on ….
Continue reading “Shock-Proof yourself against loss of your mobile phone”
A good log management tool can be very effective in managing and ensuring security in an enterprise. However, the right tool can quickly become the wrong tool unless the organisation puts in the time and effort required to make the tool effective.
Here are a few best practices to ensure a successful implementation of a log management tool:
When a computer is compromised by an attacker he usually tries to elevate his privileges to that of the administrator or root user. The attacks that can be carried out by administrative users obviously have more far reaching effects and that is what the attacker wants.
One of the main principles of security is accountability. There are some problems associated with accountability, such as the difficulty in determining the security relevance of each user action. Another problem is searching through the collected data to find meaningful information.
Most of us use wireless routers at office and home. While the office routers are generally secured (hopefully), most home routers are provided by broadband operators wih default configurations and passwords. In a worst case it may happen that these are set as unsecured. There is increasing risk of an intruder using an unsecured network or hacking into a home wireless network and sending out malicious mails. Continue reading “Secure your wireless router before it is too late”
This article is a continuation of the article ‘Securing information through identification, authentication and authorization’. The table below gives the pros and cons of the various authentication methodologies. Continue reading “Authentication methodologies compared”
Authentication is a critical component of the access control mechanisms implemented by organizations to secure information. Underlying principle of logical access control is to identify whether a user is in fact the right person whom he claims to be and provide the right type of access to that person. Continue reading “Securing information through Identification, Authentication and Authorisation”
Financial Institutions have always been highly susceptible to data breaches and as per indicators the first half of 2010 has not been any different. Already 39 breaches have been reported by Financial Institutions, and considering that reported breaches form a tip of the iceberg in relation to total breaches, actual breaches are expected to be significantly higher. Continue reading “Data Breach Involving Financial Data”
On the strength of the long standing and excellent relationship with our valued clients, associates, ecosystem partners and friends, Qadit Systems and group entities have grown both in terms of service offerings and service quality.
This has necessarily added to another dimension- the quantum of human resources in our fold.
With a view to constantly raising the bar as far as client deliverables go and as a concomitant, providing the right ambience for our human resources to serve you, we have moved to bigger premises supported by state–of- the- art infrastructure at :
1st Floor, Balammal Building (above Canara Bank)
33, Burkit Road, T.Nagar
Chennai 600 017
Phone: 044-42791150 to 52, 6547 7225
Fax: 044-42791149
In a Windows XP workgroup environment there might be a need to password protect or restrict access to specific folders. Here is a tip on how to achieve this.
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