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The Need for Information Security in Today's Economy
The advancement of technology, the Internet, and information sharing has had both positive and negative impacts. One of the negative impacts was the large increase in new "information" threats. The ...
Written by: Jeff Tarte and added on April 26, 2011An Overview of SecureIIS - Are We Really Secured Now?
The objective of this practical paper is to understand how our IIS can be protected using an application firewall. There are many application firewalls available on the market-commercial and free/shareware ...
Document added on April 16, 2011Patch Management of Microsoft Products Using HFNetChkPro
Shavlik Technologies Network Security Hotfix Checker Professional HFNetChkPro is the commercial, more full-featured version of the HFNetChk product distributed by Microsoft that allows administrators
Document added on April 4, 2011Deterring Cyber Attacks
In the past, many companies chose not to share information on cyber attacks with authorities or with watchdog groups for fear that negative publicity would decrease consumer and investor confidence ...
Written by: Christy Bilardo and added on Jan. 16, 2011Identify Intrusions with Microsoft Proxy Server, Web Proxy Service and WinSock Proxy Service Log Files
This is a guide on how to identify intrusions using Microsoft's Proxy Server log files. MS Proxy Server is an extensible firewall that provides passive defense against intrusions and functions ...
Written by: Saundra Coward and added on April 20, 2011The security risks and ways to decrease vulnerabilities in a 802.11b wireless environment
<font size="3"><b>Introduction</b></font><br></br><br> This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help ...
Written by: Richard Johnson and added on May 6, 2011Blocking Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Programs with the PIX Firewall
This document demonstrates how to (attempt to) block the most common peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs with the PIX firewall. If the application cannot effectively be blocked with the PIX, ...
Written by: Unknown and added on June 21, 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, 2011Staffing Your Computer Security Incident Response Team – What Basic Skills Are Needed?
In this document, we describe a minimum set of basic skills CSIRT staff members should have. This skill summary is based on the early incident handling experiences of the CERT ...
Document added on Feb. 8, 2011Configuring IPSec on PIX
In this article, we will talk about the setup of a VPN (site-to-site) and using pre-shared keys.
Written by: Daniel B. Cid and added on Jan. 14, 2011