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Remotely supporting as a System Administrator

Spearline Testing

We recently interviewed System Administrator, Daniel Popielnicki, about how he has adapted to working from home, the challenges he faced assisting other Spearliners, and more. One of your main roles as System Administrator is to make sure that all of Spearline’s employees are doing okay. Actually, yes!

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5 must-have security tools

Network World

“This system captures activity from Active Directory and Windows system logs, tracking everything from user sign-on to file manipulation. It then presents this information in an easy-to-use dashboard with advanced reporting options,” says Gregory Oliver, senior network systems administrator for Montgomery County.

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What it takes to become an IT security engineer

Network World

When Scott Copeland got his associate degree in network administration back in 2004, the community college he attended didn’t offer IT security courses, “but it gave me the foundation to learn more about network security,” he says. It’s one of the hardest network certifications in the industry.” Getting started.

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What it takes to become an information assurance analyst

Network World

After spending 13 years working in systems administration and network and desktop support, Simeon Holloway had reached a crossroads in his career. “I To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) I had capped out on the knowledge” required for the positions, Holloway says.

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Cyberspies tap free tools to make powerful malware framework

Network World

In fact, the use of publicly available tools designed for system administration can increase an attack's efficiency and makes it harder for security vendors to detect it and link it to a particular threat actor. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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A spam-control issue unique to Australia?

Network World

A user of Reddit’s section devoted to systems administration yesterday offered up for inspection an F-bomb-laden phishing email that had eluded his company’s spam filter despite the filter having been set to weed out such cursing. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here I also laughed out loud.

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Eleven-year-old root flaw found and patched in the Linux kernel

Network World

Linux system administrators should be on the watch for kernel updates because they fix a local privilege escalation flaw that could lead to a full system compromise. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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