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Introduction to the NSA Infosec Assessment Methodology (IAM)
On May 22, 1998 President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PPD 63). This directive outlined the civilian and governmental responsibility of protecting the US Critical Infrastructure and established the ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on April 2, 2011Information Security as a Process
Information security is a maturing field that doesn't have many of the processes that other areas of IT take for granted. In this article we will explore one of the ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 25, 2011Securing A Mobile Telecommunications Network From Internal Fraud
The purpose of this discussion will be to identify the known internal weaknesses of a mobile network and apply the concepts taught in the SANS Security Essentials Course to mitigate ...
Written by: Nathan Kurtz and added on March 18, 2011Vulnerability Assessment Policy
The first step in securing anything is to first assess the risk. A Vulnerability Assessment is one aspect of an overall Risk Assessment that involves actively finding insecure systems. Do ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on June 25, 2011Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks
Snort fills an important "ecological niche" in the the realm of network security: a cross-platform, lightweight network intrusion detection tool that can be deployed to monitor small TCP/IP networks and ...
Written by: Martin Roesch and added on April 14, 2011Snort, Apache, PHP, MySQL, ACID on Solaris 9 Installation Guide
This manual concern the installation and configuration of snort and acid on Solaris9. Of course, all installation of necessary components as mysql, SSL, PHP, adodb, etc .... will be explained ...
Document added on Jan. 23, 2011Linux Firewall - the Traffic Shaper
In order to preface the discussion of firewalls as a traffic shaper, let us introduce a simple firewall setup for a typical small office or home setup - no demilitarized ...
Written by: Jeroen Wortelboer and Jan Van Oorschot and added on April 20, 2011How to Modify the Nokia IPSO Default Filter
Are you buying Nokia's, configuring them, and then shipping them off to their destination? If so you need to read this.<br></br><br> Deploying Nokia boxes to remote locations can be difficult ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on June 13, 2011Certifications, Padding the E-mail Signature
<br>Its one of the most highly contested issues in our field. Some people love them, some people hate them, but everyone has passionate theories about their validity. </br><br></br><br>There seems to ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 1, 2011Googling Up Passwords
I'm not putting down Google. Far from it: it's a great search engine, and I use it all the time. I couldn't do my many jobs without Google, so I've ...
Written by: Scott Granneman and added on March 6, 2011