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Federal Information Security Management Act
Overview of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002. The purposes of this subchapter are to (1) provide a comprehensive framework for ensuring the effectiveness of information security ...
Written by: U.S Congress and added on March 4, 2011Using ISA Server Logs to Interpret Network Traffic
This paper provides an outline of Microsofts Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server). Firewalls are necessary for a defense-in-depth strategy, Microsoft entered the firewall market with Internet Security and ...
Document added on April 5, 2011Ethereal and NMap
This is the first in a series of excerpts from chapter 7 of Incident Response, published in August 2001 by O'Reilly. This excerpt covers two tools used by hackers to ...
Written by: Richard Forno and Kenneth R. van Wyk and added on March 14, 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, 2011Wireless Attacks and Penetration Testing (part 1 of 3)
The very idea of a wireless network introduces multiple venues for attack and penetration that are either much more difficult or completely impossible to execute with a standard, wired network. ...
Written by: Jonathan Hassell and added on Jan. 3, 2011Wireless Attacks and Penetration Testing (part 2 of 3)
There are several techniques to performing penetration testing on your wireless network, the objective of all of them being to improve the security and integrity of the network itself. What ...
Written by: Jonathan Hassell and added on April 17, 2011The corporate threat posed by email Trojans
Describing what Trojans are and why they pose a danger to corporate networks, this paper discusses the need and method to protect your network from the threat of Trojans.
Written by: GFI Software and added on March 2, 2011Protecting your network against email threats
This white paper explains why anti-virus software alone is not enough to protect your organization against the current and future onslaught of email viruses and threats. Examining the different kinds ...
Written by: GFI Software and added on Feb. 23, 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, 2011