Security

Many of us have come to know and love the Cisco PIX 500 Series as a robust firewall for the SMB (Small and medium business) customer. Virtually 95% of the clients that my consulting firm services have either a PIX 501 or 506 firewall in place. But as of July 28, 2008, you will no [...]

I sometimes enjoy playing with codes and ciphers. In fact, a long time ago (eighth grade, 1966), I got my introduction to cryptography from a book aptly named Codes and Ciphers written by Alexander d’Agapeyeff. My friends and I had some good laughs getting caught passing encoded notes in class; the nun couldn’t decipher them. [...]