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Using a layered security approach to achieve network integrity
It's becoming increasingly clear that the current model for network security -- defend the perimeter and patch, patch, patch -- has some serious shortcomings. First, relying on signature files and ...
Written by: Eric Ogren and added on March 6, 2011Information Security as a Process
Information security is a maturing field that doesn't have many of the processes that other areas of IT take for granted. In this article we will explore one of the ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 25, 2011Running Snort on IIS Web Servers Part 2: Advanced Techniques
Snort, a public domain intrusion detection system, monitors traffic by analyzing every packet on a network, looking for malevolent content. It does this by putting the network adaptor in promiscuous ...
Document added on May 22, 2011Running Snort on IIS Web Servers Part 1: Advanced Techniques
It's this simplicity that makes Snort so popular. It is simple and yet it has enough power to protect a good-sized network. It does not try to be everything - ...
Document added on April 9, 2011Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks
Snort fills an important "ecological niche" in the the realm of network security: a cross-platform, lightweight network intrusion detection tool that can be deployed to monitor small TCP/IP networks and ...
Written by: Martin Roesch and added on April 14, 2011Snort Installation and Basic Usage Part One
Computer Intrusions are on the rise. Whether it's script kids trying to deface a web page or a calculated attacker trying to steal credit card information, sites must equip themselves ...
Document added on Feb. 5, 2011Snort's Place in a Windows 2000 Environment
The target audience of this document is middle of the road administrators who may be looking for an easy to setup network intrusion detection system that won't put a dent ...
Document added on April 5, 2011Certifications, Padding the E-mail Signature
<br>Its one of the most highly contested issues in our field. Some people love them, some people hate them, but everyone has passionate theories about their validity. </br><br></br><br>There seems to ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 1, 2011Layer 2 -- The Weakest Link
Network security is only as strong as your weakest link, and that may well be Layer 2 of the OSI model, the data link layer. This layer enables interoperability and ...
Written by: Connie Howard and added on March 18, 2011Email security - SSL 3.1 / TLS 1.0 deployment
Good infrastructure security relies on a layered approach, much like an onion. A good security policy must assume eventual failure of one or more security devices or policies, and therefore ...
Written by: Ian Briggs and added on Feb. 7, 2011