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An Audit of Active Directory Security, Part 1
Anyone familiar with security architecture of the Windows NT family of operating systems knows that one of the biggest threats to the structure is in the NetBIOS services. Such threats ...
Document added on Jan. 18, 2011Requirements for the Design of a Secure Data Center
Most companies do not have the luxury, or the financial depth, to locate data centers hundreds of feet below granite mountains with complete cities to support them. Proper planning and ...
Written by: Unknown and added on May 1, 2011Community Policing on the Internet
Community policing has been applied to the physical world with good success. These programs establish a community partnership that attempts to solve the problems that lead to crime, and work ...
Document added on March 5, 2011Ghosts in the machine: The who, why, and how of attacks on information security
Information Security is the field devoted to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information [Harris]. Organizations from small home offices to multinational conglomerates have information that needs protected, not ...
Document added on March 30, 2011The 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, 2011Security Along the Path Through GPRS Towards 3G Mobile Telephone Network Data Services
This paper examines the technology and infrastructure that supports GPRS in a telecommunications environment, and looks at GPRS security consideration including GPRS network security and potential security threats.
Written by: Dung Chang and added on Feb. 1, 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, 2011Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part One: System Tools
The best tools that can be utilized in response to the intrusion threat are not ones that will be discussed in detail in this series. The tools that will be ...
Written by: Holt Sorenson and added on June 24, 2011The Enemy Within: The Role of the Security Administrator in Apprehending and Terminating the Malicio
The following information is set forth to generally describe the tools available to security administrators to facilitate the apprehension and participate in the resolution of internal threats to your organization’s ...
Written by: Robin Stuart and added on Feb. 6, 2011Wireless LAN: Security Issues and Solutions
This paper begins by introducing the concept of WLAN. The introductory section gives brief information on the WLAN components and its architecture. In order to examine the WLAN security threats, ...
Written by: Rafidah Abdul Hamid and added on Jan. 25, 2011