Backup Your Files with Office Live Workspace - Microsoft provides a free online file sharing service called Office Live Workspace. Office Live Workspace lets you store and manage files from Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can also synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft gives each user 5Gb of free space to store data online. There are a couple of advantages to this. First, you can access the data from anywhere with Web access. Rather than carrying sensitive data on USB flash drives when you travel, you can store the data online and access it from your destination. Second, you can share the data with others and use it as a file transfer or collaboration tool.
Office Live Workspace can also represent a form of secure off-site backup. Granted, 5Gb is not an unlimited amount of storage. You will still need to have a more complete backup solution as well. But, one of the weaknesses of backing up data locally is that a disaster such as a fire or flood can take out your data and your backup at the same time. With Office Live Workspace you can at least take your most important 5Gb of data and store it online where it will survive even when your data and your local backup are destroyed.
Backup Your Files with Office Live Workspace originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 10:45:43. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Ten New Security Bulletins from Microsoft - We're halfway through the year now. Microsoft unveiled the Security Bulletins for June of 2009. On the down side- there are 10 new Security Bulletins for June. On the up side- the total for the year at this point is 27 which only puts us on pace to have 54 by the end of the year which would be a low total compared with recent years for Microsoft. This month, there are 6 Critical, 3 Important, and 1 Moderate Security Bulletins. Aside from the standard Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer, there are also Critical updates related to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Active Directory, and the Windows Print Spooler. There are also patches for flaws in RPC, the Windows Kernel, and Windows Search.
To put it another way- Microsoft has something for everyone this month. Last month you may have been able to skip if you don't have PowerPoint installed or don't use PowerPoint. But, for June its a virtual guarantee that at least one of these Security Bulletins applies to you. Take a look at the summary of June 2009 Microsoft Security Bulletins to learn more about the flaws that are addressed and the patches available.
Ten New Security Bulletins from Microsoft originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 10:02:57. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Disaster Proof Storage - I love digital cameras. I used to spend tons of money on film and processing only to find out that most of the photos I took were crap. With digital cameras I can see if the photo is any good instantly. I can take 1,000 photos and it doesn't really cost any more or less than taking 10 photos. Of course, you have to do something with all of those photos. In my family we store them on our hard drive. As of today, I have over 140Gb of family photos and video clips.
That brings me to my paranoia. I have 140Gb of one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable data that could all be gone in the blink of an eye. Hard drives die. So, once a month I copy the entire photo and video collection to a USB drive that I have connected to a different computer. Then it occurred to me that a fire or flood could still take out both drives, so I began also copying the data to another USB drive which I then store inside of a fireproof safe where I keep important documents like birth certificates and such.
All of that may sound extreme, but I want some assurances that decades of family memories can survive a hard drive crash, or a fire, or a flood. Imagine my excitement then to find out that one USB drive manufacturer has taken my paranoia into consideration and built a disaster proof USB drive. The ioSafe Solo drive comes in 500Gb, 1.0Tb, and 1.5Tb sizes and is encased in a fireproof and waterproof enclosure. With the ioSafe drive I can eliminate a few steps from my routine and still have some peace of mind that my data is relatively safe. In the coming weeks I will be evaluating the device and will post a full review later.
Disaster Proof Storage originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 23:35:48. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Locking Down the iPhone - The Apple iPhone has been a tremendous success for Apple and for AT&T Wireless in the consumer arena. It has had some issues competing in the enterprise though. Regardless of their 'official' acceptance in the enterprise, many users have iPhones and may be using them to connect with internal network resources, or to store or transmit sensitive company information. They either need to be banned, or there has to be some way to ensure they are used securely. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has developed an iPhone security benchmark that can help solve this problem. The CIS benchmark provides recommended guidance for configuring security on the iPhone itself, as well as advice for using the iPhone Configuration Utility tool developed by Apple.
Locking Down the iPhone originally appeared on About.com Internet / Network Security on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 10:19:46. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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