http://www.itcapability.com Articles, thoughts and insight into the world of enterprise-scale information technology Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:11:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Improperly configured mail servers contribute greatly to the pervasive spam problem on the Internet, both for the addresses served by the mail server, and also those on the Internet at large. Improper configuration on a single mail server can result in: The mail server being used to relay spam Other mail ... http://www.itcapability.com/2008/05/19/responsible-mail-server-operation/ Most competent organizations adopt a base set of security standards for technology they deploy.  Over time, though, those standards must be revised to account for new information, new vulnerabilities, etc, as well, the technology components themselves will diverge from the desired security settings. A critical element of an enterprise security policy ... http://www.itcapability.com/2008/01/06/continued-validation-as-a-key-element-of-any-security-policy/ Many times, enterprise WAN topology grows without much forethought, expanding on an existing infrastructure. Changing topologies mid-stream is often costly and falls behind other initiatives. Because of that, it's important for the CIOs and network architects to have a good handle on the topology options and some of ... http://www.itcapability.com/2007/12/19/centralized-versus-decentralized-wan-topology-in-an-enterprise/