All pages tagged with response
The Art of Enforcement
In the computer age, actions that take seconds to complete may take years to be defined, and even longer to become regulated by law. The use of Computer Code to ...
Document added on April 10, 2011System Security and Your Responsibilities: Minimizing Your Liability
We talk about the need for system security. With security incidents on the rise, many of us are doing our best to stay ahead of the hackers to protect our ...
Document added on Feb. 16, 2011An Introduction to the NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux: SELinux
This paper will introduce the NSA's research project termed "Security-enhanced" Linux. It has been recognized that securing applications is only half of the battle: a computer system must also employ ...
Document added on Feb. 11, 2011Mass-Mailing Worms: Prevention, Detection and Response (A Case Study)
In this paper I describe the approaches to mass-mailing worm prevention, detection, and incident response that I have developed and used on a large university network. The prevention strategy has ...
Document added on April 27, 2011Computer Virus Policy, Training, Software Protection and Incident Response for the Medium Sized Organization
The need to minimize damage to systems and productivity requires a “defense-in-depth” strategy of policy, user training, software protection and virus incident response. While large corporations often have an information ...
Document added on May 5, 2011Detecting and Recovering from a Virus Incident
There is an ongoing battle between the creators of computer viruses and malicious code and the firms creating software to prevent their actions. While antivirus firms are adding proactive technology ...
Document added on May 30, 2011Installing, Configuring, and Testing The Deception Tool Kit on Mac OS X
This paper will introduce a Honey Pot known as the Deception Tool Kit (DTK) written by Fred Cohen. It will give an overview of what the DTK is, where to ...
Document added on April 15, 2011Information Protection Center: Stage 1 - Active: Response Phase
The highest priority task for the IPC is to respond to incidents as they occur. This may involve working with the affected organization to determine the cause of the incident ...
Document added on Jan. 16, 2011Extranet Access Management (EAM)
As businesses develop Internet applications they are increasing their exposure to external security vulnerabilities from the Internet. In many companies the security of web applications is the responsibility of each ...
Document added on Feb. 12, 2011A Security Guide For Acquiring Outsourced Service
Outsourcing is not an abdication of the organization's security responsibilities to an external contracting vendor. While leveraging on the economies of scale and technical expertise of the supplier, the organization ...
Document added on March 7, 2011