Peter Wood founded First Base in May 1989 as a vendor-independent consultancy. The firm now provides security testing and audit services to large corporate clients and UK government. Peter has hands-on technical involvement in the firm on a daily basis, working in areas as diverse as penetration testing, social engineering and skills transfer.
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Contributions from Peter Wood, Network Security
- How to ensure secure email exchange with external business partners
- Database activity monitoring technology vs. SIEM tools
- Mobile encryption options for mobile devices: Built-in vs. manual encryption
- Alternatives to buying full-on network access control (NAC) systems
- How to address a spike in TCP and UDP flows
- Is it enough to analyse log files, or is an IDS necessary?
- What to look for in a network security audit
- How secure are extended validation SSL certificates?
- What should happen to users and devices that fail NAC policies?
- Cloud computing network security best practices
- When to use a unified threat management system
- When IT security costs are cut, which security product is a must?
- What considerations should be made when outsourcing IT infrastructure?
- When running Wireshark, will adding a switch stop packet sniffing?
- How to enable a local keyboard after an RDP connection
- When to capture packets with Wireshark