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Sept. 20, 2006: Vol. 7, Issue 32
Editor: Becky Nagel (bnagel 101com.com)
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In this issue:
1) THIS WEEK'S IT CERTIFICATION NEWS
2) ZUBAIR'S TIP O' THE WEEK: RESTRICTING USERS FROM
WRITING TO USB
FLASH DRIVES IN WINDOWS XP
3) FROM THE FORUMS: TOPOLOGY MAPS, REFERENCE BOOKS, MORE
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1) THIS WEEK'S IT CERTIFICATION NEWS
New CCIE Voice Written Exam Coming Late October
Cisco Systems announced on its Web site last month that it
will be
releasing a revamped Voice Written exam, the
traditional-format
exam that qualifies candidates to sit for the Cisco
Certified
Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Voice lab exam.
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2) ZUBAIR'S TIP O' THE WEEK: RESTRICTING USERS FROM
WRITING TO USB
FLASH DRIVES IN WINDOWS XP
QUESTION:
I work for a company that requires a very high level of
security.
Is there a way for us to restrict users from writing to
their USB
flash drives in Windows XP?
ANSWER:
A lot of companies with higher security requirements are
concerned
about the possibility of users copying confidential data
onto
their USB memory sticks and taking it off site. Luckily,
Windows XP
Service Pack 2 offers a solution. It supports a registry
entry that
will make the USB drive read-only. Here's the procedure:
1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
2. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control.
3. From the Edit menu, select New, Key, and type
StorageDevicePolicies. If this key already exists, then skip
to
the next step.
4. Highlight the newly created key
"StorageDevicePolicies" and
from the Edit menu select New, DWORD Value, type
WriteProtect and
press Enter.
5. Double-click WriteProtect and enter 1 for Value data. The
value
1 makes all the USB drives read-only; a value of 0 will make
them
writable.
6. Close the registry editor and restart the computer.
Make sure that your users aren't using any other USB
storage
devices such as hard drives or rewritable CD/DVD drives
because
the above registry modification will make all USB storage
devices
read-only.
-- Zubair Alexander, MCSE, MCT, MCSA and Microsoft MVP, is
the
owner of SeattlePro Enterprises, an IT training and
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business. His experience covers a wide range: trainer,
consultant,
systems administrator, security architect, network engineer,
author, technical editor, college instructor and public
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Zubair holds more than 18 technical certifications and
bachelor of science degrees in aeronautics and astronautics
engineering, mathematics and computer information
systems. His Web site, www.techgalaxy.net, is dedicated to
technical resources for IT professionals. Zubair may be
reached
at alexandertechgalaxy.net.
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3) FROM THE FORUMS: TOPOLOGY MAPS, REFERENCE BOOKS, MORE
The following posts were made to our forums recently by IT
professionals like yourself. To post your own comments,
please
register with the forums.
To respond to one of these posts or find out more, go to the
link under each post. To read our other posts and start a
thread of your own, go to http://certcities.com/f
orums/
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*Topology Drawing* (CCNA/CCNP forum)
racq writes:
"What software do you guys use to draw toplogy map?
Visio, SmartDraw?
I am documenting the labs I am planning to do. Need to find
a good
application to draw the maps."
Read the entire post and responses (10 so far) at:
http://certcities.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?tid=3907
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*Cisco Security Reference Book* (Cisco -- Real World forum)
seceng writes:
"Can someone suggest a good security reference book
for work? I am
task with the responsibility to review some Cisco IOS sho
run conf.
Then I need to provide written feedback about any visible
vulnerability, and how to harden the conf. My suggestion
could say use
ssh or access-class on telnet, exec-time 0 30, or key chain
for rip. I
have the 'Hardening network infrastructure,' which is very
good, but
doesn't cover enough Cisco devices."
Read the entire post and responses (two so far) at:
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*Test 70-218 Networking* (MCSA/MCSE forum)
Detectorist writes:
"Now that I have passed the CCNA test, how difficult
will this
test be?"
Read the entire post and responses (eight so far) at:
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*High School Student Looking for Advice!* (Careers &
Salary forum)
mastamasta writes:
"I am currently taking the CCNA certification class
(preparation)
at community college while attending high school. I always
liked
doing things about computers and took different computer
classes
that interested me most. I think CCNA classes are fun for me
and I
would like to be working in this field when I grow up. What
I was
wondering was, after I receive CCNA certification (by senior
year)
what should I do? I plan to go to college after high school
(hopefully
Cal Poly Pomona). Should I go for the CCNP? I also looked
at the
Cisco Web site and it looked like they had different
branches of
Cisco. Which one of these would be best for me (like
demands, etc)?"
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