Sourcefire
Microsoft: Security patches are beating malware in race to users
News Mapp partner and network security provider Sourcefire issues protections based on the information for about 95 per cent of the monthly Microsoft security bulletins. Now, it takes only about two hours, according to... [28 Jul 2009]
Enterprise Threat Management (ETM): Bringing Security Together Through Intelligence
White Paper While IT security spending has been on the increase in recent years, unfortunately so have vulnerabilities and successful attacks. Enterprises are still being infected with undetected, targeted malware - evading traditional perimeter and... [01 Jul 2009]
Microsoft plays host to security at Forefront of Exchange
News Other companies integrating with Stirling include Kaspersky, Brocade, Juniper Networks, Guardium, Imperva, Sourcefire, StillSecure, Q1 Labs and Tipping Point. Microsoft will begin offering its first hosted security... [16 Apr 2009]
Building a Real-Time, Adaptive Security Infrastructure
White Paper Witness the dawn of real-time, adaptive security, where companies not only react to threats but also anticipate them by defending the network before, during and after the attack. Check out this program and learn how to create an... [13 Apr 2009]
Enabling the High-Performance Next Generation Firewall
White Paper Crossbeam Systems, working closely with Check Point and Sourcefire, has developed a tightly coupled, high-performance, scalable, and reliable Next Generation Firewall solution that has been designed from the ground up to... [25 Jun 2008]
Target-Based TCP Timestamp Stream Reassembly
White Paper This paper explores the use of the TCP timestamp option and associated timestamp values to comprehend how different operating systems react to manipulated timestamp values. This is valuable knowledge for an Intrusion Detection System... [27 Dec 2007]
Target-Based TCP Stream Reassembly
White Paper In their landmark 1998 paper, "Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection," Thomas Ptacek and Timothy Newsham exposed some weaknesses in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). [27 Dec 2007]
Check Point snorts up Sourcefire for $225m
News Check Point is to spend $225m buying Sourcefire, the company behind the open source intrusion prevention tool Snort. Sourcefire offers a free, basic version of Snort but also sells more advanced versions... [07 Oct 2005]