Category: Cyber Police

• Cover Your A$$ – Secure Your WiFi Now!

  I honestly hate saying ‘I told you so.’ For years I have been telling everyone who will listen (and a lot of people who didn’t want to) about the importance of securing wireless networks.  I’ve told stories about the possible consequences, and have scared some of them into doing the right thing.  Unfortunately far too…

  Mitch Garvis

  April 25, 2011

  Article, Blog, Community, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, IT Pro, IT Security, NYPD, Password, Police, SWMI, SWMI Consulting Group, WiFi, WiFi Security, Wireless, Wireless Password

• A Do-it-Yourself SWMI? No sweat!

  Ok, let’s be honest.  We all know that we need to secure our Active Directory infrastructures, but many of us are not entirely sure how.  You may even know that Group Policy is a great tool to do it centrally, but with literally thousands of Group Policy settings available in Windows Server 2008 R2, where…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 3, 2011

  Article, Ask the Expert, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, Deployment, Garvis.ca, GPO, Group Policy, IT Security, SWMI

• Mitch Visits One Police Plaza

  A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 15, 2010

  Article, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, Deployment, Laptop, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft Office, New York, New York Police Department, NYPD, Police, Real Time Crime Center, RTCC, SnagIt, TechSmith, Windows XP