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NAC and Internet Protocol Telephony: Securing Enterprise Voice-Over-IP Environments
White Paper IP Telephony imposes specific requirements on NAC solutions. Enterprises who have deployed IP Telephony, or who have plans to do so, should ensure that the requirements to support and protect the voice environment are included in their... [13 Nov 2009]
Why Is LDAP Failing Audits?
White Paper Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) initially seemed a viable alternative that would also allow organizations to manage their Microsoft and Unix user populations in a standard way. However, the... [13 Nov 2009]
Revocation Made Simpler
White Paper This white paper discusses the drawbacks of the existing methods of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and suggests an alternative and the persuasively simple way for... [13 Nov 2009]
Vulnerability Analysis of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) DoS Attack Over Wireless Networks
White Paper IEEE 802.11 supports 802.1x to provide strong authentication mechanism for Wireless networks.x utilizes Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) as a framework for authentication, allowing for a number of authentication... [12 Nov 2009]
SFTP: The Secure File Transfer Protocol
White Paper The Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP, is not based on the industry standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP), as defined in RFC-959. Built on the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, the... [12 Nov 2009]
Authentication Mechanisms for Physical Access Control
White Paper The Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of IDentity (PLAID) is an authentication protocol that uses standards-based symmetric and asymmetric cryptography in a unique way to protect the communications... [12 Nov 2009]
Making VoIP Secure: Proactive Network Intrusion Prevention for Enterprises and Service Providers
White Paper This white paper takes a close look at security concerns associated with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It discusses how network architects can minimize the risks associated with converged networks by designing the... [12 Nov 2009]
Why Switch From IPSec to SSL VPN: And Four Steps to Ease Transition
White Paper Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were originally developed over a decade ago to help businesses avoid the costs of privately-leased WAN lines. IPSec VPNs work by establishing a tunnel... [12 Nov 2009]
Getting Up to Speed: RFID Powered by Impinj
White Paper Off late Radio Frequency Identification (or RFID) - a means of identifying objects via a wireless communications protocol using radio waves - has become commonplace. One may already be making wireless payments for... [12 Nov 2009]
IronPort Email Authentication
White Paper The problems of spam, viruses, phishing and most email denial-of-service attacks can all be traced back to a single common cause - lack of authentication in the email protocol SMTP. This lack of authentication means that... [12 Nov 2009]
Integrating Wired IDS With Wi-Fi Using Open-Source IDS to Complement a Wireless IDS/IPS Deployment
White Paper Focusing their analysis on the data-link and physical layers of the OSI model (Layers 2 and 1), these tools allow organizations to successfully identify and defend against rogue APs, wireless protocol attacks and denial... [12 Nov 2009]
An Enhanced Security Protocol for Fast Mobile IPv6
White Paper Off late, Kempf and Koodli have proposed a security protocol for Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6). Through the SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) protocol, it achieves secure distribution of a handover key, and... [11 Nov 2009]
A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions
White Paper As the Internet's de facto interdomain routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the glue that holds the disparate parts of the Internet together. A major limitation of BGP is its failure to... [11 Nov 2009]
OPC Security White Paper #2: OPC Exposed
White Paper Off late, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), process control and industrial manufacturing systems have increasingly relied on commercial Information Technologies (IT) such as Ethernet, Transmission Control... [11 Nov 2009]
SEC-SNMP: Policy-Based Security Management for Sensor Networks
White Paper There are three main components in Sec-SNMP: Sec-SNMP manager, Sec-SNMP agent and a policy control and deployment protocol. The policy control and deployment protocol allows the communication between... [11 Nov 2009]