Since we’ve been highlighting issues and insights in Vista 64-bit security, we thought we’d send readers off for the holidays with a link to a great resource on that topic: x(perts)64 This is a blog edited by Charlie Russel, friend of VPN Haus and consummate expert on all things x64. His site is an absolute [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Received an interesting message from an end user the other day… We are a large website that deals with a user’s credit card data and therefore must be PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant. Some of our workstations are running Windows 2008 Server 64-bit which the Cisco VPN client doesn’t support. However, your NCP VPN client [...]
From TaoSecurity… Jeremiah Grossman on Justifying Security Spending Richard Bejtlich points us to Jeremiah Grossman’s list of five ways to justify security spending. A very well-reasoned contribution to the “security ROI in a recession” debate. From Rational Survivability… Beyond the Sumo Match: Crosby, Herrod, Skoudis and Hoff…VirtSec Death Match @ RSA! Christofer Hoff announces that [...]
We’ve written before about the trouble with VPN support for Vista x64. This week in PC Magazine (syndicated to ExtremeTech), Michael Miller discusses again the surprises users may encounter when using Vista x64 to connect to a Cisco VPN: And finally, I come to the program that has caused me the most trouble: the Cisco [...]
From DevCentral… Security is not a luxury item Lori MacVittie writes about the mistakes some corporations might be tempted to make when evaluating security budgets in a tough economic time. “In times when budgets are tight, the trick is not only to determine what’s necessary, but also to squeeze the most functionality out of every [...]
