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Patch management with GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS
Patch management is an essential network administration task and consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available. This ...
Document added on April 9, 2011The vicious circle of patch management
Network administrators spend their days overwhelmed by the task of testing and deploying patches to vulnerable systems. It's not just the volume of patches that gets them down but, once ...
Document added on Jan. 25, 2011FOCUS on Linux: Security Tools
There are many security tools for Linux, each good at a specific task or class of tasks. However, there is no universal panacea, which will relieve a system administrator of ...
Document added on April 18, 2011The history of the standard
The origin of ISO/IEC 17799 goes back to the days of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Commercial Computer Security Centre (CCSC). Founded in May 1987, the CCSC ...
Document added on Jan. 31, 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, 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, 2011Snort Tutorial: Guide to basic Snort use
A few months ago I was presented with a task of creating a secure DMZ with Linux servers in it, since I am not a Linux guru yet, I wanted ...
Written by: delete852 and added on June 5, 2011Check Point Firewall 1 on Linux, Part 1
This is the first in a series of three articles that will examine Check Point Firewall-1 for Linux. This installment will consist of a brief introductory overview of Firewall-1, and ...
Written by: David and added on Feb. 13, 2011Check Point Firewall-1 on Linux, Part 2
Check Point Firewall-1 has been the market-leading firewall system since its introduction in 1994. The main advantage of Firewall-1 is its comprehensive and easy to understand GUI, which has made ...
Written by: David and added on Feb. 28, 2011Check Point Firewall-1 on Linux, Part 3
This is the third and final article in a series devoted to the exploration of Check Point Firewall-1 for Linux. In the first article we discussed single and multi-system installation ...
Written by: David and added on April 1, 2011