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• Home is where the heart (and disaster back-up plan) is

  Cybersecurity Industry Alliance Executive Director Paul Kurtz explains why telework may be crucial to surviving The Big One. Continue Reading

• Agent vs. agentless patch management

  Site expert Jason Chan shares some general pros of agent and agentless patch management. Continue Reading

• Locking down laptops that connect to hotspots

  Wireless laptops are a huge security risk, especially when they connect to public hotspots. Contributor Kevin Beaver provides a step-by-step guide for locking down your laptops using a variety of firewalls, encryption and security protocols. Continue Reading

• Step 5: Choose tools to clean up spyware

  Good news: Since spyware has become so prevalent, so have a great many antispyware tools. Continue Reading

• Step 3: Recognize how spyware acts

  Like virus infections, the majority of spyware infestations are silent. The computer rarely gives any indication that a new program has been installed. Continue Reading

• Step 2: Know where spyware comes from

  Spyware most commonly enters a computer one of two ways: silently, through a Web page, or bundled with another software program.Continue Reading

• Manage patch deployment

  Get help keeping up with recent Windows patches with the resources in this tip by contributor Tony Bradley.Continue Reading

• Step 3: Make sure patches are actually being applied

  This may seem like a no-brainer, but Brien Posey explains how this is one step that is easily overlooked.Continue Reading

• Step 1: Understand what is being patched

  Brien Posey discusses what he thinks is probably the most important step in an effective patch management process.Continue Reading

• Spy Fighters: Managing spyware protection for remote employees

  This remote access engineer and SearchWindowsSecurity.com reader explains how he centrally manages spyware protection and cleansing for 45,000 employees' work and home machines.Continue Reading

• 7 tips in 7 minutes: Windows password creation

  As part of the 25 password hardening tips in 25 minutes series, the the following seven quick tips offer best practices for creating strong passwords from SearchWindowsSecurity.com experts and contributors.Continue Reading

• 10 tips in 10 minutes: Password policy considerations

  The following 10 quick tips offer expert advice on password policy considerations, from educating users on the importance of a password policy to enforcing minimum length passwords.Continue Reading

• Introduction to patch management

  This is introduction to patch management is the first excerpt from Chapter 1 of "The complete patch management book," courtesy of Ecora.Continue Reading

• Quick tips for easier patching

  In the conclusion of this two-part series, Serdar Yegulalp offers three basic techniques to make patching dozens or hundreds of computers a less painful process.Continue Reading

• Chapter introduction: The importance of patch management

  This excerpt from "The administrator shortcut guide to patch management" explains why the key to gaining overall security is patch management.Continue Reading