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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, 2011Will Your Network Pass a Security Audit?
It is a well-known fact that in the Internet-connected world network perimeter vulnerabilities do exist that allow unauthorized individuals access to networks and provide the ability to disrupt business continuance. ...
Written by: Michael Bruck and added on June 22, 2011Malicious Hackers and Spam, Part 2
I discovered that a spammer was using the client's server to relay spam. Although the server wasn't an open relay, the spammer was somehow authenticating to the server to send ...
Document added on Feb. 28, 2011Disaster Recovery Plan Strategies and Processes
This Disaster Recovery Plan is designed to ensure the continuation of vital business processes in the event that a disaster occurs. This plan will provide an effective solution that can ...
Written by: Bryan C. Martin and added on June 22, 2011Is your risk management plan as good as it gets?
Not all security incidents can be prevented, nor is it cost-effective to try. Each control should be evaluated on its own merits prior to implementation. Issues to consider: direct costs, ...
Written by: Shawna McAlearney and added on Feb. 15, 2011Community Policing on the Internet
Community policing has been applied to the physical world with good success. These programs establish a community partnership that attempts to solve the problems that lead to crime, and work ...
Document added on March 5, 2011Intrusion detection evasion: How Attackers get past the burglar alarm
The purpose of this paper is to show methods that attackers can use to fool IDS systems into thinking their attack is legitimate traffic. With techniques like obfuscation, fragmentation, Denial ...
Document added on Jan. 19, 2011An Overview of Disk Imaging Tool in Computer Forensics
The objective of this paper is to educate users on disk imaging tool ; issues that arise in using disk imaging, recommended solutions to these issues and examples of disk ...
Document added on April 3, 2011Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part One: System Tools
The best tools that can be utilized in response to the intrusion threat are not ones that will be discussed in detail in this series. The tools that will be ...
Written by: Holt Sorenson and added on June 24, 2011Wireless Networks: Security Problems and Solutions
The need for security on any network is apparent: the prevention of eavesdropping and the desire for authentication has been the main focus of many network administrators. However, the problems ...
Written by: Jonathan Weiss and added on June 13, 2011