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Sep 21, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Nate Lewis
Privacy is something that every organization needs to take seriously. When customers and clients trust an organization with their private information, that trust needs to be respected. As with healthcare, the insurance industry needs to adhere to significant regulation.
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Sep 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
In this article, I will show how to configure a Vagrant box to run PowerShell.
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Sep 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
When it comes to package management, Windows has historically been far behind Linux. With Chocolatey, Windows users can now get a taste of something "yummy."
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Sep 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
In this article, we'll take a look at how Python can be used by System Administrators to automate the management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. You'll learn how to set up the Python scripting environment for first use, and how to...
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Sep 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Docker for Windows is a product offered by Docker that allows users to set up a Docker container on a client-based operating system (Windows 10).
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Sep 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Ashish Tawade
Network Security has multiple concepts. One such model is the Before-During-After concept, which I will break out into different phases. Specific to incident and problem management in IT, this methodology plays an important role for IT teams.
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Sep 14, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Kevin Conklin
Nearly a million servers around the world still run the unsecure legacy FTP protocol and are actually configured for ‘anonymous’ access. Not good.
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Sep 9, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
One of the new features of Ipswitch's MOVEit Automation 2018 product is the introduction of REST APIs. In this video from Ipswitch contributor
Adam Betram, we'll cover how to use PowerShell to first authenticate to a MOVEit Automation server and then we'll cover how to...
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Sep 5, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Kevin Conklin
Assuring data privacy has been a hot issue for years and the basic building blocks of a strong defense against cybercriminal data theft hasn't changed.
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Sep 3, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Don't let your entire workflow be hung up because one of the scripts is stuck on some task. There's a way around that!
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Aug 30, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Missy Januszko
FTPS helps to encrypt and transfer private information within the constraints of regulatory requirements.
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Aug 30, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Functions are a common occurrence in PowerShell and to truly understand the PowerShell language, it's important that you know how functions work. In this article, we're going to show how a PowerShell function evolves from basically nothing all the way to having...
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Aug 28, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
One of the excellent features of the new MOVEit Transfer 2018 product is the introduction of RESTful (REST) APIs. If you're not familiar with REST APIs, it boils down to an industry-standard way of accessing applications or services over HTTP/S.
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Aug 28, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
The majority of organizations are not going to use one specific provider to host their systems. Whether it be VMware on-premises, Azure in the cloud, AWS, or Hyper-V, most will be operating on more than one.
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Aug 27, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Large organizations typically have lots of devices that require IP addresses. Client desktops, tablets, mobile and desk phones, servers and more all consume IPs. The only way to manage IPs at this level is to use Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),...
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Aug 27, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Michael O'Dwyer
For the purposes of this post, we are concerned with two relevant options, namely File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Managed File Transfer (MFT). The second, being managed, obviously offers more features than a standard file transfer solution. But, which solution is best...
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Aug 24, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Basic details of your computer like operating system and version, memory, network adapter and hard drive are never stored in one central location.
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Aug 23, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
SaltStack/Salt is a configuration management (CM) and orchestration tool that enables system administrators to automate server provisioning and management tasks. Salt is comparatively a newcomer in the CM segment as it was launched in 2011, at a time when Puppet and Chef...
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Aug 22, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Greg Mooney
CCleaner has been used by IT professionals and users alike for cleaning up temporary files and the Windows registry. But is cleaning the Windows registry useful?
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Aug 21, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Attackers wanting to steal your information online are some of the most creative people alive. It’s amazing how many ways they can come up with to steal your information. One of those ways is through a technique called cross-site scripting or XSS for short.
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