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Detection of Invalid Routing Announcements in RIP Protocol
White Paper However operational experience suggests that hardware faults, software implementation bugs, operator misconfigurations, let alone malicious attacks can all lead to invalid routing protocol announcements. [11 Jul 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Application-Level Attacks: Exploiting Misconfigurations and Administrative Errors (Level 300)
White Paper This webcast shows how an application that is considered secure can still be exploited due to production problems such as misconfigurations and administrative errors. The presenter provides demonstrations on editing HTTP query string data, POST... [10 Jul 2008]
A Flexible and Extensible Security Framework for Java Code
White Paper Java as the most popular platform for mobile code includes such an architecture which unfortunately is complicated and tedious to use, lacks sufficient support for system-wide security policy maintenance, has no concepts for user and group... [03 Jul 2008]
FIREMAN: A Toolkit for FIREwall Modeling and ANalysis
White Paper However, misconfigurations in firewalls are very common and significantly weaken the desired security. By treating firewall configurations as specialized programs, FIREMAN applies static analysis techniques to check misconfigurations, such as... [16 Apr 2008]
How NetIQ Helps Address the Toughest PCI Challenges
White Paper The requirements for security best practices, including information security policy development, monitoring changes and threats, and assessing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities In this white paper you will learn: [26 Sep 2007]
Cost-Effective E-Business Continuity: A Buyer's Guide to Uptime
White Paper Hardware failures, software failures, attacks, natural disasters, misconfigurations, and even planned maintenance, create downtime that brings e-business to a temporary halt. As more and more business processes move to the Web, it's increasingly... [23 Jul 2007]
Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities in .NET Configuration Files
White Paper This paper lists ten of the "Worst offenders" of security misconfigurations, and demonstrates their potential impact on the applications. These days, the biggest threat to an organization's network security comes from its public Web site. [02 Jul 2007]
Opportunistic Measurement: Extracting Insight From Spurious Traffic
White Paper This paper argues for a new approach to illuminate these hidden regions of the Internet: opportunistic measurement that leverages sources of "Spurious" network traffic such as worms, misconfigurations, spam floods, and malicious automated scans. [09 Jun 2007]
Automatic Misconfiguration Troubleshooting With PeerPressure
White Paper This paper presents a novel troubleshooting system: PeerPressure, which uses statistics from a set of sample machines to diagnose the root-cause misconfigurations on a sick machine. This is in contrast with methods that require manual... [24 May 2007]
Applications of Secure Electronic Voting to Automated Privacy-Preserving Troubleshooting
White Paper Some past work introduced a novel peer-to-peer application that leverages content sharing and aggregation among the peers to diagnose misconfigurations on a desktop PC. This application poses interesting challenges in preserving privacy of user... [23 May 2007]
Securing Database Servers: Database Security for Enterprise Information Systems and Security Professionals
White Paper Data integrity and improper access can be compromised by many factors, including complexity, insecure password usage, misconfigurations, and unrecognized system backdoors, making imperative regular use of an adaptive database security solution. [23 Aug 2005]
Business Value of eTrust Vulnerability Manager: Results of a Third-Party Study
White Paper Vulnerability management addresses the life cycle of identifying system misconfigurations and critical design flaws in software that may allow a malicious user to misuse the technology and impact your business-critical systems and the remedying of... [17 Sep 2004]
White Paper: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2
White Paper The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a tool that allows users to scan one or more Windows-based computers for common security misconfigurations. MBSA will scan a Windows-based computer and check the operating system and other... [15 Apr 2004]
Securing Database Servers
White Paper Data integrity and improper access can be compromised by many factors, including complexity, insecure password usage, misconfigurations, and unrecognized system backdoors, making imperative regular use of an adaptive database security solution. [02 Mar 2004]
Baseline Security Analyzer
White Paper The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a tool that allows users to scan one or more Windows-based computers for common security misconfigurations. MBSA will scan a Windows-based computer and check the operating system and other... [25 Feb 2004]
