November 27th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua System administrators are faced with a lot of challenges and many different tasks, running across the company or from floor to another will not help in solving these tasks but it will make them more complicated. Now if your infrastructure is based on windows environment using remote desktop is not a good idea, you may [...]
October 30th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Usually any person wants to take his favorite applications and programs everywhere. If you will not use your own computer than you will not be allowed to install your favorite programs or if you will install an application than you should track different software and this is very hard (removing all installed applications change in [...]
Posted in Software Security, Tools 
Tags: Cameyo, Desktop Applications, DropBox, Security, ThinApp, Virtualization 
11 Comments » October 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Qubes OS is a new operating system aims provide more safety measures to users; the idea behind this operating system is to protect users against new malware as it builds a Security Isolation technique based on the virtualization. To understand methods to secure OS Level there is three categories: 1) Security by Correctness (secure coding). [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: Linux, opensource, Qubes OS, Security, Virtualization 11 Comments » September 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Integrated security component on windows operating system are not enough this what has been indicated by many security professional. Windows firewall and other security functionality do not provide the required level of protection. For effectively protecting windows system we need to install third party software application such as Kerio WinRoute Firewal or WatchGuard Firewall with [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Software Security, Tools Tags: HAVP, OpenBSD, opensource, Security, squidGuard, VirtualBox, Virtualization 11 Comments » August 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft has provided developer with a full access to the final version of windows server 2008 R2, which has been released in the end of July this year. Subscribers at the MSDN and TechNet are able to download this release while this version will be available in the market on 22nd of Octobre. Windows Server [...]
April 19th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua An industry group has come up with a model for evaluating and determining if and where cloud-based computing makes sense for an organization. The Jericho Forum today released its so-called Cloud Cube Model white paper (PDF), which provides best practices and criteria for going to the cloud, as well as choosing the appropriate service providers. [...]
Posted in Best Practices Tags: Cloud computing, cloud cube model, Security, Virtualization No Comments » April 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua VMWare has released new patches to address multiple vulnerabilities in the VMWare Hosted products, and ESX. These vulnerabilities may allow the ability to execute on the host server from a guest operating system. Relevant releases : • VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier, • VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier, • VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier, • [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities Tags: patching, Security, Update, Virtualization, VMWare, Vulnerability No Comments »
