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Am I Admin?

This is a quick sample code that I used quite often on customer sites:

  1. To Check whether or not I am a local admin on my machine.
  2. To quickly list what Windows groups my user account is part of.

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by Joao Morais on February 15, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in .NET, Development, Security

Posted by Joao Morais on February 15, 2011

https://blog.ilab8.com/2011/02/15/am-i-admin/

Security Measures to take into account when designing web sites

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Here are a few measures in order to secure a web site:

  • Always create at least two network boundaries:
    1. A DMZ (i.e. Front-end machine area)
      • Web servers mainly, but it could have other machines used for communication, as long as:
        • No customer data should be hold in this network boundary
        • Machines in this boundary can only talk to machine on the next level down if that machine does not hold any confidential data (e.g. Customer Data, Partners data, Employees data, etc..)
    2. A Back-end machine area (more…)
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by Joao Morais on February 1, 2007  •  Permalink
Posted in IIS, Security

Posted by Joao Morais on February 1, 2007

https://blog.ilab8.com/2007/02/01/security-measures-to-take-into-account-when-designing-web-sites/