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Personal Proxy - Online Privacy Protection for Home Users
Although online security has drawn increasing attention, online privacy issues have not been well addressed and communicated, especially for home users. Personal information collection is a common business practice for ...
Document added on April 20, 2011National Security Presidential Directive 1.
The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, established the National Security Council to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to ...
Written by: George W. Bush and added on Jan. 31, 2011U.S. Government IT Security Laws
Several laws have been passed to secure those doors of ill-intent while maintaining windows for the public. One such law is the Federal Information Security and Management Act (FISMA).
Document added on May 20, 2011Remote OS detection via TCP/IP Stack FingerPrinting
This paper discusses how to glean precious information about a host by querying its TCP/IP stack. I first present some of the "classical" methods of determining host OS which do ...
Written by: Fyodor and added on Feb. 17, 2011The Art of Port Scanning
This paper details many of the techniques used to determine what ports (or similar protocol abstraction) of a host are listening for connections. These ports represent potential communication channels. Mapping ...
Written by: Fyodor and added on March 3, 2011Event Correlation in Security
In the deep and somewhat muddy sea of security marketing terms, correlation appears to be the current pack leader, closely chased by intrusion prevention. In this paper we will try ...
Written by: Anton Chuvakin and added on March 1, 2011Check Point NG FP3 step-by-step Install Guide on Nokia IPSO
After using this document as a reference guide (not a configuration guide), you should be able to put the device in line and connect it to a management server with ...
Written by: Brandon Robrahn and added on Jan. 29, 2011How to perform network-wide security event log monitoring
This white paper explains the need to monitor security event logs network-wide and how you can achieve this using GFI LANguard S.E.L.M. It is written by Randy Franklin Smith, author ...
Written by: GFI Software and added on Jan. 19, 2011Wireless Data Connectivity Guidelines
This document sets forth the guidelines for using wireless technologies for data connectivity and identifies responsibilities for the deployment of wireless connectivity services and the administration of the wireless radio ...
Written by: University of Arizona and added on June 26, 2011Securing a Wide-Open Computer Network
I will be outlining how I've applied many of the security principles discussed in this paper. While there are many highly qualified IT professionals in the field today, there are ...
Written by: Mark Andrich and added on June 3, 2011