All pages tagged with web_server
Low- to No-Cost Methods to Review Webserver Logs for Potential Security Issues
This is a description of the inexpensive methods I devised to extract and tally records of interest in order to analyze webserver logfiles for potential security problems, compromise attempts, while ...
Document added on Feb. 17, 2011Introduction to Netwox and Interview with Creator Laurent Constantin
In this article Duane Dunston gives a brief introduction to Netwox. Performing a security or network audit with a large number of security tools available can be quite overwhelming. Even ...
Document added on May 28, 2011Firewall Basics
<font size="3"><b>What is a firewall?</b></font><br> A firewall is a gateway that restricts and controls the flow of traffic between networks, typically between an internal corporate network and the Internet. Firewalls ...
Written by: Manu Arian and added on Jan. 10, 2011The Changing Threat Landscape
Although Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report confirms a significant increase in 2003 of malicious code that exposes confidential data, enterprise security is evolving to meet the challenge of these cyber ...
Written by: Oliver Friedrichs and added on June 15, 2011Best Practices for Prevention And Recovery
<b>Best Practices for Prevention AND Recovery</b><br> <i>Organizations should take multi-pronged approach to protect mission-critical data and systems from today’s blended threats</i><br><br> <i>By L.D. Weller</i><br><br> We’ve all heard the old adage ...
Written by: L.D. Weller and added on Feb. 9, 2011A Holistic Approach to Incident Prevention
<b>Introduction</b><br><br> As IT Security professionals struggle to respond to the increasing threats posed against their networks, too often, the approach taken consists of various silo projects aimed at eliminating one ...
Written by: Stephen Hendrie and added on Jan. 16, 2011Reducing False Positives using Vulnerability Assessment
<font size="3"><b>Abstract</b></font><br> <i>Configuring Intrusion Detection System that suits the network is a tedious task for the security analyst. They need to be aware of the network topology and the hosts ...
Written by: Ramesh S and Elango K and added on April 26, 2011Denial of Service (DOS) Attacks
During the release of a new software product specialized to track spam, ACME Software Inc noticed that there was not as much traffic as they hoped to receive. During further ...
Written by: Jeremy Martin and added on Feb. 16, 2011Information Systems Security Training Virus and Worms
<b>Virus damage estimated at $55 billion in 2003</b>. “SINGAPORE - Trend Micro Inc, the world's third-largest anti-virus software maker, said Friday that computer virus attacks cost global businesses an estimated ...
Written by: Jeremy Martin and added on June 23, 2011Intelligent Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems
<font size="3"><b>Abstract</b></font><br><br> An Intrusion Detection System always helps the “second in the queue”, in other words; any Detection System can only say that there is an attack which is ongoing. ...
Written by: Rajesh T Sivanandan and added on April 16, 2011