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Ashley Knowles

Motorsport Enthusiast, Cyber Security Professional & Business Strategist

Comprehensive IT & Cybersecurity Expertise

With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

Comprehensive IT & Cybersecurity Expertise

With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

Comprehensive IT & Cybersecurity Expertise

With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

Comprehensive IT & Cybersecurity Expertise

With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

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With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

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With over 20 years experience, developed from IT support up through the ranks to General Management & Director roles, Ashley has experience across every aspect of managing IT & Cybersecurity outcomes. 

If you’ve been following, I’ve recently been playing with Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, the “new” ISA Server. Now, for all intensive purposes, everything is configured correctly. There’s a virtual IP for the proxy array (let’s say, 192.168.0.10), and the WPAD file is published, and contains the IP addresses of

I got tasked with a problem today which was plain weird… New servers being deployed, are unable to contact the WSUS distribution point to check for updates. The file C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log show the following errors: 2010-11-23 11:03:45:106 800 634 Misc WARNING: SendRequest failed with hr = 80072ee2. Proxy List used: Bypass

I’m not 100% sure if this is correct in a security sense, but thought I’d post this. For my web/database servers, it’s a pretty basic setup really. Drop all inbound packets not specifically allowed, and allow all outbound unless specifically denied. Open for comment / feedback. It’s for all intensive

I get asked a fair bit, do I know of any jobs going in the IT industry, by mates looking to get into IT. I occasionally get asked, how I got to where I am today also. So I’m writing this post for anyone out there, who’s just finishing school

In light of all the “omg, people can hack into my Facebook/Twitter account now” rubbish that’s been headlining around the world in the last week, I faced a similar situation, in constantly being prompted to allow access through a firewall, which seemed to think my access to brain dump material

Exceeelllleeennnttttt. Puts Stephen Conroy’s NBN fibre network to shame, doesn’t it? Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds Paris, France – 25 October 2010 “Phantom DSL” reaches 825 megabits per second over 400 meters of copper lines Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically