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Business Continuity Planning for Transactional Businesses
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Business Continuity Planning is critical for transactional businesses more-so than non-transactional businesses. What do I mean by “transactional”? If you process things in real time such as sales of products or processing packages for shipment, you are transactional. The reason transactional businesses need to consider business continuity to a greater
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The Australian Encryption Laws – A Solution
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The Australian lawmakers are passing laws that progressively take away privacy of the citizens of this country. The most recent successful attempt to increase the powers of the security agencies focuses in “encrypted message interception” which, in effect forced technology companies to assist security agencies with message interception. Exactly how
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Manage Everything With Ansible
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All HowTo's
Ansible
Ansible & Terraform
Linux
Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux
Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux
Web Servers
Ansible is a buzz word at the moment. Ever since Redhat purchased Ansible back in 2016, it has been rare to hear about anyone deploying alternative automation systems. Recently Ansible has been commercialized into Ansible Tower allowing a wider audience to take advantage of the benefits of automation. I recently
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Creating & Restoring From Snapshots in AWS
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Cyber-Security
Just like with VMWare or Hyper-V, Amazon’s AWS supports snapshots and they make it easy to create them and restore from them. But in true AWS style, they don’t make it obvious how it works. I’m hoping to change that in this article. I’ve used the word “snapshot” but strictly
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How To SSH Tunnel – Access Resources Behind a Firewall
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Cyber-Security
Linux
Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux
Scenario: You’re at home and want to log into the office Intranet to finish up some work. But wait, the Intranet is on your corporate network and you’re at home. Sure you can use your corporate VPN – if you have one and can remember the credentials. If not, consider
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How To Start a Staff Induction System
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All HowTo's
All businesses need a way to induct their new staff into the business. So far it’s either paper based, computer based or purely verbal. This article is for those that want to use a computer based system. Here’s an important tip. If you’re going to use an LMS (learning management
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Australian Institute of Company Directors | Taking IT Security Seriously
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Cyber-Security
Recently I received an email forwarded-on by a company director who asked the question “How are we treating IT security in our business?”. I was pleasantly surprised. The email was originally sent by someone who had done the course and felt compelled to share it with those in similar positions
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Exam Kabam – Free Signup This Week Only
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Cyber-Security
We’re excited to share our IT Security Exam preparation tool with our fellow IT professionals at no cost for the this week only. Next week it will be back to subscriptions only. Go to “https://www.examkabam.com/” and click the Signup button. Your free subscription will work for a month and no
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https:// By Default, It’s a Matter of Time
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Cyber-Security
As it is right now, when you browse to your favorite website, your web browser attempts to connect insecurely first and then, if told to, it will try again securely. I suspect this will change one day soon and the sooner the better. Most websites that you visit today will
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IT Security Policies For Small & Medium Enterprises
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Cyber-Security
This is a repository for IT security related policy documents. AGIX is focused on helping all businesses create and apply effective IT security policies to ensure businesses are not part of the problem of the global insecurity situation but rather they become part of the solution. These documents can be
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