What’s Nagios? Nagios is an open source monitoring application for systems and networks. It can monitor hosts, network services, resources such as processor load; logs, disk usage etc. You can configure it to send escalating alerts to individuals or groups, and it can alert when selected things go wrong, and again when they’re resolved. Why World-Text… Read More
Yesterday I looked at passwords, and why they are long past their sell by date and thoroughly inadequate. Â Two factor authentication and password managers provide a far better approach than the usual tired advice of choosing a long, complex but memorable password you change often (Impossible, much?) Two fifths (40%) of UK adults now own… Read More
I take another look at passwords in more depth. As a security measure they’re long past their sell-by date. You are using something else as well, right?… Read More
An introduction to two factor authentication, and what is wrong with traditional password only security. Also looks at the “myth” of complex passwords.… Read More