TOOLS OF INFORMATION SECURITY

Security+:The Foundation forSolid Network andInformation Security1-800-COURSESwww.globalknowledge.comExpert Reference Series of White PapersIntroductionThe focus of this white paper is to introduce the Security+ certification and the foundation for a career inInfor[r]

Assessing security risksSecurity requirements are identified by a methodical assessment of security risks. Expenditureon controls needs to be balanced against the business harm likely to result from securityfailures. Risk assessment techniq ues can be applied to the whole organi[r]

Likewise, the subject must be assured that none of the information provided will be at-tributed directly to him or her.You should also review all existing security-relevant policies as well as key configura-tion documents. The examination should not be limited to only those docu[r]

CHAPTER3InformationSecurity Services27Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use.Information security services are the base-level services that are used to combat the at-tacks defined in Chapter 2. Each of the four security services[r]

Chapter 10[ 207 ]Anything they do to "mitigate" an incident saves lives and saves countless taxpayers' dollars.Your role in incident management could be modeled after the re or police units in your local city.What are YOU doing to mitigate attacks? What are YOU doing to educate your employees about[r]

In this case, ‘policy’ means the access control rules that the network security product is intended to enforce. In the case of the firewall, the policy should list: • The core services that are being permitted back and forth. • The systems to which those services are permitted • The ne[r]

employees. The discord and subsequent loss of morale and perhaps employee exodus dueto being disgruntled over pay differences can be huge. Often, all this could be avoided ifthe system administrator had simply secured the system properly. Howlett_CH01.fm Page 11 Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:58[r]

Yet within four months Tom had stabilized the network, stopped any further attacks,locked down the public access points, and cleaned up the internal network, as well as add-ing services that weren’t there before. How could he do all this with such limitedresources? He knew the basic principles and c[r]

okay. Also, some companies are beginning to open source some part of their software.These “hybrid” licenses are becoming more common. If you do decide to do this, you willwant to make sure you clearly understand the open source license and have your legaldepartment research it thoroughly. Thi[r]

IRS agreed that identified weaknesses continue to exist and stated that it has taken actions to reduce the risks associated with these identified weaknesses. IRS expressed confidence that GAO would find that significant progress has been made during its fiscal year 2011 audit. What GAO Found In GAO’[r]

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Corporate Integrity Computer Based Training Programmes Chương trình huấn luyện trên máy tính về tính liêm chính tập đoànInformation Security & Data Privacy Bảo mật thông tin & Dữ liệu riêng tư
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are coming from there these days, so this is the best place to start.Coverage of each security tool is prefaced by a summary of the tool, contact informa-tion, and various resources for support and more information. While I give a fairly detailedlook at the tools c[r]

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While Windows has some of the network diagnostic and query tools that UNIX has,such as ping and traceroute, it does not offer some of the other services, such as whois andHowlett_CH02.fm Page 45 Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:58 PM46 Chapter 2 • Operating System Toolsdig, right out[r]

Network unreachable•Host unreachableYou can tell a lot more about a host with a ping than just if it is alive or not. As youwill see, the way a machine responds to a ping often identifies what operating system it isrunning. You can also use ping to generate a DNS lookup request, which gives the dest[r]

initial purchase price. •Ignorance. Many company system administrators are simply not aware that aproblem exists or that a patch is available. Now with Microsoft’s automatic updatethis has become a little less of a problem for Windows systems, but the problempersists for other vendors and mor[r]

Considerations for Hardening Windows 49There are several other tools that are not the subject of this book, such as Check can-cels for USENET News and Decode URLs, that you may find useful if you are developinga Web site. Sam Spade can give you UNIX-like capabilities in terms of[r]

also allows other operating systems to be supported via different clients. There arecurrently UNIX and Windows clients available, with projects to create additional onesongoing. There is also now a Web client interface available, which makes Nessus trulyplatform independent (at least on the client e[r]

Vulnerability Scanners to the Rescue 139Nessus Plugins TabOnce you are logged in, you can access the other tab sections. The Plugins tab is whereyou can selectively enable or disable certain groups of plug-ins as well as individual plug-ins (see Figure 5.2). Each category is listed, and when[r]