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The Disaster Recovery Plan
The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) describes the steps an organization takes when it cannot operate normally because of a natural or manmade disaster. It may be written for a specific ...
Written by: Chad Bahan and added on Feb. 14, 2011Introducing 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, 2011FOCUS on Linux: Clear Text Communication - Slaying the Beast Part Two
In this article, we go a step further in eliminating clear text passwords, exploring mail retrieval protocols. We discuss freely available mail software, features of the software, and how to ...
Written by: Hal Flynn and added on Jan. 5, 2011Patch management with GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS
Patch management is an essential network administration task and consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available. This ...
Document added on April 9, 2011Ghosts in the machine: The who, why, and how of attacks on information security
Information Security is the field devoted to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information [Harris]. Organizations from small home offices to multinational conglomerates have information that needs protected, not ...
Document added on March 30, 2011Focus On Linux: Intrusion Detection on Linux
This article focuses on several host-based intrusion detection systems that are available on Linux. In particular, I will cover some of the basics of installing setting up these packages, how ...
Document added on June 16, 2011Component Security Design Considerations for J2EE and .Net An Architectural View Part 3
we explored security design considerations for Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft's .Net platform for enterprise components. In this part we will examine which differentiators are available for ...
Document added on June 20, 2011An Overview of SecureIIS - Are We Really Secured Now?
The objective of this practical paper is to understand how our IIS can be protected using an application firewall. There are many application firewalls available on the market-commercial and free/shareware ...
Document added on April 16, 2011Introduction to Netwox and Interview with Creator Laurent Constantin
In this article Duane Dunston gives a brief introduction to Netwox. Performing a security or network audit with a large number of security tools available can be quite overwhelming. Even ...
Document added on May 28, 2011Corporate Incident Handling Guidelines
Incidents are an unfortunate fact of life in any systems environment. They can be extremely visible and disruptive (eg: widespread virus outbreaks) or entirely unnoticed but extremely damaging (eg: loss ...
Written by: David Theunissen and added on June 13, 2011