Vince Barnes

I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Kevin Mitnick at the Infosec World Conference in Orlando, Florida last week. Kevin Mitnick, in case you don’t already recognize the name, is the “super-hacker” of the 80’s who was finally captured by the FBI in 1995 after being on the run for two years. Having […]

Windows Server 2003 — to upgrade or not to upgrade? That is indeed the question for today’s Windows NT- or Win2K-based IT department. In fact, it’s a pretty good question for any IT department to be asking right now. As with many seemingly simple questions, the path to the answer can be complex and can […]

That is indeed the question for today’s NT or Win2K based IT department. If fact, it’s a pretty good question for any IT department to be asking. As with many seemingly simple questions, the path to the answer can be complex and require a lot of consideration. An “Executive Overview” of some key areas of […]

Computer system security is a journey, not a destination. The moment you think you have a secure system, you don’t. The process of securing a system includes constant monitoring for discovered security holes and vulnerabilities. The objective, of course, is to find out about the newly unearthed flaw, obtain a patch and implement it before […]

More, better, faster, cheaper…These are the adjectives one expects to see manufacturers use in the descriptions of new products, including operating systems. Microsoft is no exception – or are they? “Windows Server 2003 is the fastest, most reliable, most secure Windows Server operating system ever offered by Microsoft,” trumpets the company in one of its […]