Hi,

I have five locations that have Sonicwalls and all five locations are connected by VPN.  The contract is up with the five Sonicwalls and the contract is up for renewal.  The owner wants to consider installing a different VPN firewall at each location.  He's has not been very happy with the Sonicwalls and doesn't want to renew the contracts for the Sonicwalls.  I've used Sonicwallls in the past and don't have any problem with them but the boss wants a change.  Each location has 4-5 Windows 7 or Windows 10 computers.  The owner wants to know if the Ubiquiti Edgerouter would be a secure solution using site-to-site VPN.  I've used the Edgerouter before but never in a situation like this so I don't know if it would be a good solution.  I was thinking about looking at a Fortinet VPN router to replace the Sonicwalls but I want to see what your suggestions are.  Why or why not would you recommend going with a Edgerouter for a site-to-site VPN between 5 locations?  Would Fortinet or Ubiquiti be a better (better value--same level of security) solution as a Sonicwall replacement?  Is there a better (better value) solution?  Thanks in advance for your help!

Does anyone recommend any good ethical hackers?  I want to ensure that I close any open security issues for my organization and I was thinking of hiring an organization or individual that can provide that service?  

Any reputable recommendations?

We have a Watchguard M200 firewall that we would like to limit inbound/outbound bandwidth to 20Mbps on our External (WAN) interface. Our ISP allows for 40Mbps total bandwidth. I've gone into Traffic Management and changed the interface to limit bandwidth to 20Mbps but this only seems to apply to upstream outbound traffic. Inbound traffic is still coming in at the fulll 40Mbps. Is it possible to also limit inbound traffic to 20Mbps?

Thank you

I work for a small company with roughly 50 users and have been asked to have an outside vendor perform security/vulnerability testing.  We have several servers, ranging from SQL, to Exchange, to Remote Desktop with a hosted firewall through Windstream.  I thought I would appeal to the Experts in the Experts-Exchange community for advice and/or recommendations for a good vendor that specializes in such things.

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for options to protect my files and folders on my local laptop.

For example, if  someone stole my computer or hacked into it, I would like to have certain files (my business file that houses information on clients/staff and my financial file) to have a password on them in order to open them.  I know that some apps also hide the file and can’t be opened or seen.

I Want to make sure that I have to put a password in when file needs to be opened and it would be good to be able to have it hidden to anyone that hacks into my computer if that should happen.  

What options do I have please ? what do you recommend ?

important I am running Windows 7. I am looking for a solution for windows 7

Thank you,

With my Tenvis camera connected to my home's Wifi SSID and my laptop
connected to my home's Wifi, I could http://Tenvis_IP:7777  & see what
the camera sees.

However, at my company, I can't connect my Tenvis camera to the Guest
Wifi as it requires registration plus clicking a couple buttons on the
landing page before the device could connect to Guest network.

Now, I'm replacing the Tenvis with my iPhone using the steps below:
https://www.gottabemobile.com/how-to-turn-your-old-iphone-into-a-security-camera/

However, with both my iPhone & laptop assigned an IP each by Guest Wifi, my
laptop still can't ping the iPhone & can't see the videos despite that both iPhone
& laptop have registered successfully & clicked the necessary buttons to get
authenticated/connected to Guest.  How can I overcome this?

I plan to put the iPhone in my car to monitor the car (using the laptop) as my car
is parked within the vicinity of the company.  I could sign up a data plan for the
iPhone but it's going to cost quite a bit to monitor 22 days, ten hrs per day so
tagging onto the free Guest Wifi.

After being hit with Ransomware, restoring from backup, and reinstalling applications as needed, I can't get the Quickbooks Database Server services started or the Quickbooks Database Server Manager to run. When I browse for files and 'Start Scan", it attempts to start the services after browsing the files, finding Quickbooks files. It claims the folder in which the company files live isn't shared. I guess that's technically true, but the directory one level up IS shared, so it's possible to browse to it from a network share. Then it tells me it is attempting to resolve Networking issues, and tells me after that to resolve network issues and try again later (not the exact syntax, obviously).

I have tried installing just the bare server (what we had done in the past), installing the full version of Quickbooks (2016 for the moment), uninstalling, rebooting the server (2008 R2), reinstalling just the database server, using the Quickbooks clean boot utility, disabling ALL firewalls (Kaspersky and WIndows Firewall), I can't get the QBDbMgrN to start and stay started. I can't get the QuickbooksDB26 started. For some reason it claims to be a service that should be started manually. I don't recall that having been the case in the past.  Also,  I don't think the QuickbooksDB26 ever disappeared, even after a clean install (using the Clean Install tool), an uninstall, and/or a reboot.

Previous to the ransomware, the server had Quickbooks 2015 and 2017 database servers installed. …

I currently have a Watchguard Firebox in place and have recently purchased a Cisco Catalyst 2960 to server as our primary switch. Our Watchguard currently manages our WAP's (also Watchguard) which have a private and public wifi network which is segmented through the use of VLAN's.

I'm extremely new to Cisco and I'm trying to determine how I would go about configuring the ports on the switch to pass along all VLAN traffic which should allow the WAP's to continue functioning.

What are  the best practices and Guide lines to build a Security Operation Center - SOC ?

what  are  the components needed to build a SOC ?

I have my IT guy access my computer via Teamviewer so he can access my servers via RDP from my computer, and he doesn't have server login information.

If I give him RDP access to my computer instead of using TeamViewer, how can I secure files and data on my  servers?

Running Exchange 2010 with MS outlook 2010
 I have a share mailbox call  (sharemailbox1@domain.com) in my inbox has an auto forward all mails to my inbox.

what I need is a rule that will move (filter) the email that is auto forwarded to a specific subdirectory in my personnel inbox in  Outlook 2010

Screen shot attached.
this-message-was-autoforward.PNG

Active Directory: Customize the Password must meet complexity requirements. Is there a way to enforce 4-4  categories? or how to specifically enforce the Non-Alphabetic characters?

Contain characters from three of the following four categories:
English uppercase characters (A through Z)
English lowercase characters (a through z)
Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)
Complexity requirements are enforced when passwords are changed or created.

We are trying to enhance our password security and would to be able to enforce the special character.
We know there is third party software that allows this but like to know if there is a way to do it on Windows server 2012?