[dba-Tech] Security

Thanks everyone that offered help.

The training of the staff only took about hour and then another tech guy, who also does some of the company's business, dropped by and he turned out to be quite an unpleasant fellow. You will be pleased to know I managed to handle him with politeness, feigned concern and resisted the temptation to beat him senseless with a keyboard and throttle him with a mouse cable. ;-)

I guess his nose was out joint that he did not get asked to give a similar presentation. (Now I know why they didn't ask him).

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 12:06:37 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Security

Hi all:

I have been asked to give a little talk about security to a company and it workers come Monday.

The subject of the speech will go something like this:

One, Make sure the router is set up property whether at the office or home. Change the password from the default, something around ten plus digits, a mix of numbers, upper and lower case and special characters. Older routers should be replaced as they can be hacked. If you want security, limit your dependency on Wi-Fi. (There is software out there that can read the Wi-Fi signal and I would suspect write it.) So don't use Wi-Fi in the office. Don't open any router ports other than 80 or 8080. If you do have to have other open ports, the Virtual drives are your friend...just set up your router to point towards the appropriate virtual drive's IP address triggered by the data arriving on a specific port number. (Note: limit ports open that do not have application continually listening on them.)   

Two, if you are using XP, start using another browser. The IE browsers supported by XP are not safe.

Three, watch what you open in your mail client. This is where most if not all malware originates from. If you are at work and if in doubt, never open it.

That is a quick off the top list of talking points. If anyone could recommend further important items to discuss it would be greatly appreciated.

MTIA

Jim 
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