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Mike Chapple, Ph. D., CISA, CISSP, is an IT security manager with the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as an information security researcher with the National Security Agency and the U.S. Air Force. Chapple is a frequent contributor to SearchSecurity.com, and serves as its resident expert on enterprise compliance, frameworks and standards for its Ask the Experts panel. He previously served as site expert on network security, is a technical editor for Information Security magazine and the author of several information security titles, including the CISSP Prep Guide and Information Security Illuminated.
See below for Mike's archive of advice on both compliance and network security. To submit a question for Mike, click on the "Ask a Question" tab above.
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Contributions from Mike Chapple, Enterprise Compliance
- Can laptop users' offline activities be monitored?
- How should I repair a firewall that cannot process HTTPS addresses?
- How can I protect the sensitive information that resides on my laptop?
- What does O2Server port '1894' do and how does it affect our network security?
- How to create shared services that two different parties can use
- Application proxy firewall features and functionalities
- How do we create a restrictive ruleset to manage our TCP ports?
- Network security best practices
- How to configure and implement a DMZ
- How do circuit-level gateways and application-level gateways differ?
- How to recognize a Web site that uses Secure Electronic Transaction
- How do proxy servers and proxy firewalls differ?
- Can Snort read multi-platform syslogs?
- Evaluating the costs associated with securing, supporting and maintaining a VPN
- Will wireless carriers adopt a device security philosophy?
- Can you manage smartphones and Pocket PC phones using Windows Group Policy?
- How can I open a closed port so my application can access the Internet?
- Can a non-administrator change the local administrator password on 50 workstations?
- What is the best method to determine whether email messages are transmitted as clear text?
- Is it a common practice to deny/filter e-mails that contain files with macros?
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