Safeguarding Family Internet – Overview
(Haven’t posted in a long time–sorry for that. Been busy. Having twins unexpectedly (as if there were any other way) will do that to a guy.) Home Networks My wife and I home school our children using excellent videos from Abeka, and it works out very well. They can travel with me when the opportunity arises, work from the dentist’s waiting room, or whatever. Except for the problem of how to let the kids get to the Internet safely. Well, there’s all kinds of thoughts out there on the subject. Everything from “Don’t” (absolutist) to the school of thought that says “They’re Going to See It Anyway” (defeatist). Then there are the people who say, “My kids would never do anything like...
Linux.com Article: Protecting Networks with SmoothWall Express 3.0
Originally published at www.linux.com on December 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM; reprinted with the author’s permission. Corporations and home users alike need firewall protection. Many choices abound, including some expensive, commercial options that only run on specialized hardware. Others, like SmoothWall Express, are freely downloadable, built on the same technology as the commercial solutions, and even deliver some superior features. SmoothWall Express 3.0, from August 2007, is an open source firewall distribution released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It provides all the features commonly found in a modern system, but also a few that you might not expect. Stateful inspection, dynamic and static NAT, egress controls, demilitarized zone (DMZ)...
Network Security 101 – Data Classification
Ok, this really isn’t that difficult. Common Classification Systems There are two main classification schemes for data objects; the most well-known is used by the US Government for protected national information. It uses terms, now made somewhat clichéd in popular media. The other generally used schema is for the private sector. Governmental Objects Unclassified Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) Confidential Secret Top Secret Enterprise (Private Sector) Objects Public Sensitive Private Confidential The other component of any classification scheme is the subject. There three categories of subject within a data classification system, they are as follows: Classification Subjects Data Owner Data Custodian Data User In classification systems, the Data...
New Article Published – Protect Your Network with SmoothWall 3
Once again, I have pestered the editors at the ordinarily refined Linux.com into publishing an article. I had a harder time getting this one right. I was stuck in a fiction writing mode–half of the sentences I wrote were in passive voice. Very frustrating–probably more so for the editors. http://www.linux.com/feature/154568 In any case, go check out the story–SmoothWall is an excellent choice for network border...
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