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Introducing Defense-in-Depth to a Small ISP
With the recent spate of worms and vulnerabilities, and the increasing public awareness of same, a rural Internet Service Provider (ISP) requested some assistance in assessing the security of their ...
Written by: Rodney R. Anderson and added on June 27, 2011Using 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, 2011Location Based Windows Patch Management
In order to propagate, both these worms used known security vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, vulnerabilities that at that time were already addressed by Microsoft and fixed by security ...
Document added on Jan. 2, 2011Beating Hackers to the Patch
ItÂ’s a good thing the Blaster worm and its variations werenÂ’t really insidious. Had it devastated hard drives, it could have inflicted billions of dollars in lost productivity and other ...
Document added on May 4, 2011Home User Security: Your First Defense
It used to be that an anti-virus program was a home user's first (and perhaps, only) line of defense against the spread of viruses, worms, trojans, and other malicious code. ...
Written by: Sarah Granger and added on March 18, 2011Fighting Internet Worms With Honeypots
Paper covering different ways honeypots can be used to detect, identify, stop, and even strike back against worms, the plague of the Internet.
Document added on Feb. 1, 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, 2011A Patch in Time
Victor Barra simply didn't have the staff to keep the more than 1,000 Windows servers at Siemens Medical patched. More than once, malware attacks brought down systems and cost the ...
Document added on Jan. 7, 2011Computer Security Issues that Affect Federal, State, and Local Governments and the Code Red Worm
The first signs of the Code Red worm appeared on July 13, 2001. Code Red is a malicious program called a worm because it is self-propagating. When it compromises a ...
Written by: Jeffrey J. Carpenter and added on April 29, 2011IIS 6.0 Security
The popularity of web servers as a prime target for crackers and worm writers around the globe made IIS a natural place for Microsoft to focus its Trustworthy Computing Initiative. ...
Document added on May 9, 2011