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Defense in Depth

Deception: A Healthy Part of Any Defense in-depth Strategy

This paper will: Define and discuss the major components of a multi-layered defense with special emphasis on security policies and their framework, and define deception and discuss how it is ...

Written by: Paul Anderson and added on April 16, 2011

Implementing Defense in Depth at the University Level

This paper will discuss how defense in depth was implemented at a university in the Southwest. It will begin with a brief description of the concept of defense in depth, ...

Written by: G.Michael Runnels and added on Jan. 9, 2011

The Need for a REAL Defensive Information Operations Capability

The military includes both Offensive Information Operations and Defensive Information Operations; however, this paper is limited to discussions of the later. DIO in this paper is derived from the United ...

Written by: Mark J. Ruchie and added on June 13, 2011

Defense In Depth

This paper will look at three common scenarios for network attacks, likely methods of attack, and countermeasures to protect the network from the attacks. The first scenario is an attack ...

Written by: Todd McGuiness and added on May 21, 2011

Security Management Systems: An Oversite Layer for Layers of Defense

This paper discusses the true strength of a well-planned and maintained information security solution. Layers are built primarily by breaking networks into subnets, De-Militarized Zones (DMZs) and so on, with ...

Written by: Dan Keldsen and added on Feb. 18, 2011

Information Security: Managing Risk with Defense in Depth

This paper will first give a detailed overview of risk/risk management & data classification and why we need the Defense in Depth strategy. Then it will layout the blueprint for ...

Written by: Kenneth R. Straub and added on May 7, 2011

Defense In Depth: A Small University Takes Up the Challenge

This paper briefly explores the vital network security design concept of Defense in Depth (DiD). It is based upon extensive research and reading in the field, thirteen years of general ...

Written by: David W. Robinson and added on Jan. 13, 2011

Defense-In-Depth Applied to Laptop Security: Ensuring Your Data Remains Your Data

As the use and need for mobile computing grows in the global, interconnected economy, so does the need for mobile data protection. This paper illustrates how to apply a Defense-In-Depth ...

Written by: Chris Grant and added on April 28, 2011

Introducing Defense-in-Depth to a Small ISP

With the recent spate of worms and vulnerabilities, and the increasing public awareness of same, a rural Internet Service Provider (ISP) requested some assistance in assessing the security of their ...

Written by: Rodney R. Anderson and added on June 27, 2011

Using a layered security approach to achieve network integrity

It's becoming increasingly clear that the current model for network security -- defend the perimeter and patch, patch, patch -- has some serious shortcomings. First, relying on signature files and ...

Written by: Eric Ogren and added on March 6, 2011