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BBRY Settings

Question:
How can I lock the BBRY so users cant disable their GPS settings?
Solution:
If you enable the IT Policy for Location Based Tracking, this will turn on the GPS setting.  Then set the IT policy to refresh every 24 hours.  Refrshing the policy will force the users BB to turn the GPS on, even if they [...]

win2003 server

Question:
I want to watch for traffic on my win2003 server. I’m interested in keeping an eye out for potential intruders. I didn’t know how advisable it would be to put something like wireshark on the server to look for intruders. Would there be a better way to watch for mischief?
Solution:
If your looking for an Open [...]

Security Audit Failure – The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.

Question:
I’m getting hundreds of events per minute in the event log / security.  I’m completely stumpted and can not figure out why this is happening.  Here’s an example of the events :
The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.
Application Information:
Process ID:            484
Application Name:      \device\harddiskvolume1\windows\system32\svchost.exe
Network Information:
Direction:            Inbound
Source Address:            224.0.0.252
Source Port:            5355
Destination Address:      29.23.14.18
Destination Port:            58459
Protocol:            17
Filter [...]

Restrict Website Access to specific users on Domain

Question:
Web Access to our domain users has begun to be abused somewhat.  MySpace and Facebook are being accessed much too frequently.  I was instructed to deny access to those sites to ALL domain users and (using instructions provided by Experts Exchange question/answer) was able to do so.  Below are the instructions used to accomplish this.  [...]

Biometrics integration

Question:
We’re looking for a solution that will allow us to do the following:
- User has a biometric software (or reader) running on his PC (or USB) that reads his fingerprint
- User fingerprint is read from the device and then token is created (that doesn’t envolve actual scanned fingeprint)
- User strats VPN client that uses fingerprint [...]

Cisco Router Configuration – How do you know if an Access-List is being applied?

Question:
Hello Cisco Experts,
I have inherited a router that has a bunch of access-lists configured. Most of them are extended lists that seem to be not in use by the lines that is configured. I’m not questioning whether they should be used or not, I just want to find out how to know whether they are [...]

Securing SNMP on a network.

Question:
Hi Guys,
How can we can we enable and secure SNMP on a network?
Solution:
Follow these steps:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094489.shtml
And best practices:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786583%28WS.10%29.aspx

Malware functions

Question:
I fight a lot of malware in the environment where I work. There is no real structure in place for MS updates. The PCs are pretty much set up with auto install of MS updates at various times. The machines are all XP SP3 with Office 2003 SP3. The quick fix for the really tough [...]

Accessing Windows 7 Share over VPN Tunnel

Question:
Hello Experts -
I have a Windows 7 box behind a Cisco ASA firewall.  I currently do not have any antivirus software on it and do not plan on installing any (it’s a temporary virtual machine for a few tests).  On the LAN, I can access the shares on the VM without a problem; however, if [...]

how to open UDP port 123

Question:
I have a PIX-501
i know enough to be stupid and i only know how to modify it via the JAVA App
i am trying to open UDP port 123 to allow all in and out traffic to anything on my lan
is this possible or do i have to forward to a certain IP?
I thought i could
configuration->accessRule
add [...]