Nobody wants to come face to face with a nasty Trojan or any other malware. But if you do, you may benefit from what we learned during a recent encounter.

Nagios is an open source tool that provides pro-level network monitoring.

You can securely browse the web from any public location by using a secure web proxy.

If you have access to an SSH daemon, you can surf safely no matter where you are connected.

Brandon Teska walks you through using this award-winning open source SSL VPN to securely link two networks over the Internet.

In Part 2 of his DIY for creating an SSL VPN, Phillip Howell walks through configurations for remote file browsing and desktop access

Your identity and other personal data can be much more vulnerable while on the road. Derek Boiko-Weyrauch shows you how not to be an easy mark.

SSL-based VPNs are fast replacing difficult-to-configure IPsec and PPTP gateways. In Part 1 of a two part series, Phillip Howell shows you how to turn a spare Windows PC into a pretty slick SSL VPN server.

With the rising popularity of telecommuting and the increasing need to protect their electronic assets, companies large and small have been turning to Virtual Private Networking (VPN). The good news is that many savvy IT departments realize that many of their telecommuting employees share their broadband connections with consumer-grade routers. Those folks have made their lives easier by using "NAT friendly" VPN gateways and VPN clients that don't require any changes to home users' router settings in order to successfully set up a VPN tunnel.