THIS WEEK: Spotlight on security

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>>About this e-mail:  >>Receive this e-mail as text   November 30, 2001  In this Issue >> Featured Topic: Play it safe with VPNs >> Expert Technical Advice: Ask the Expert: Web administration and Internet Web development Bill Boswell's Admin Corner: Solve this IT puzzle and win a prize Discussion Day: Back to the future with NT >> Site Highlights: Real Time Vendor Connection: Backup for Windows servers Live Expert Q&A with Tony Northrup: How bad (or good) is IIS? The dos and don'ts of deploying clusters  Featured Topic: Play it safe with VPNs by Christine Polewarczyk, Assistant Site Editor Remote workers are an inevitable part of the corporate landscape these days, and with them comes a host of VPN-related security concerns. Find out what configurations, policies and procedures you can put in place to minimize risk. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tony Northrup, Genuity Categories:Web Administration, Internet & Web Development Tony will guide you through the basics of simple Internet services all the way to Web site hosting and server management. View all Tony's expert responses or ask him a question. This Week: In the forums >> Bill Boswell's Admin Corner: Solve a problem and win a prize! Today�s your last chance to pit your IT skills against your peers in Bill Boswell's puzzle of the week. Winners will be posted and a new contest begun on Tuesday. Put on your thinking caps and enter now. >> Discussion Day: Back to the future with NT Join site expert Paul Hinsberg for a Discussion Day all day Wednesday December 5 in the Migration and Active Directory forum. Paul will be answering questions about integrating legacy applications with Win2k and XP. Tip of the Week: Server security Locking down a Windows server isn't easy. There are patches, service packs, and a raft of other security utilities to apply -- and you must keep current with these programs as new vulnerabilities are discovered. New software from Foundstone, Inc. may be the answer. Strom-meter: **** = Very cool, very useful >> David Strom's Productivity Tool Shed: Server security  Site Highlights Real Time Vendor Connection: Backup for Windows servers Dec 18, 2001 at 12:00 PM EST (17:00 GMT) Join us for a Real Time Vendor Connection with VERITAS Software. You'll learn how VERITAS Backup Exec on NAS storage appliances delivers high-performance protection for booming storage growth. Sponsored By: VERITAS Live Expert Q&A with Tony Northrup: How bad (or good) is IIS? Dec 06, 2001 at 12:00 PM EST (17:00 GMT) Site Expert Tony Northrup will help sort out the pluses and minuses of the beleaguered IIS, and offer advice on how to lock it down. Sponsored By: St. Bernard Software SearchWindowsManageability Exclusive: The dos and don'ts of deploying clusters Any IT manager who thinks clustering technology will abolish system downtime is sadly deluded. There's a big difference between "always available" and "continuously available" servers. Clusters offer the latter, but they only deliver that continuous availability if they're deployed and managed correctly. Win2k security tips Keep your corporate data, Web sites and networks secure from the threat of hackers, viruses, competitors and disgruntled employees. Register today to start receiving weekly expert Win2k security advice. Subscribe today FREE storage report Stay up-to-date on the latest storage deployment and management innovations. Just update your member profile to start receiving the FREE Storage Innovators weekly report. Register now New speakers added! Our sister site, searchStorage, just added top CEOs and independent experts to its Storage Management conference lineup. View their credentials and apply to attend this FREE conference taking place in Chicago, March 20-22. More details A B O U T  T H I S  E - M A I L : This e-mail is brought to you by TechTarget where you can get relevant search results from over 20 industry-specific Web sites. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed. Copyright 2001 TechTarget, Inc. All rights reserved.