Cisco for Small Business – An Example Network Case Study

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This article is part 2 of a 2 part series: Part 1 is at Why Is Cisco Equipment a Smart Investment for Small Businesses? Moving from the broad over view covered in Part 1 lets now move into demonstrating some of the direct benefits of the more commonly implemented features of Cisco router and switches [...]

Is Cisco for Small Business the Right Choice?

Having worked at IT consulting on a part time basis since 1986 and full-time for the past eight years I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of small to mid-sized organizations varying in size from the one person home office to entities with revenues in the mid-eight figure range and just under 100 [...]

Wireshark for Network Management

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An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice. Introduction: The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and [...]

The Cybercrime Ecosystem by Eugene Kaspersky

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Cybercrime Is Here to Stay Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared [...]

Conflicker Worm Will Not Cause the World to End!

With the Conflicker worm having become the latest of the Internet scares being propagated by the main stream news media we thought it essential to cover this topic a bit. The Conflicker worm is programmed so that infected machines attempt to update themeselves periodically with the next known update being for April 1, 2009. That [...]