protocols
Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications
White Paper Typically, these benefits are delivered to application developers by the framework vendors, using proprietary or standards-based protocols. As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks... [15 Oct 2009]
Web Application Security: Automated scanning versus manual penetration testing
White Paper Research has shown that a vast number of Web sites are vulnerable to application attacks, most occurring over HTTP/S protocols. There are two methods to detect Web vulnerability: using manual penetration testing and code... [12 Oct 2009]
Securing WLANs With Two-Factor Authentication
White Paper While advances in wireless protocols have made major improvements in enabling WLAN security, two-factor authentication is crucial to protecting wireless networks from intrusion. Organizations can deploy wireless VPNs or... [05 Oct 2009]
MashSSL: Towards Multi-Party Trust in the Internet
White Paper This paper first shows that several seemingly disparate problems, ranging from secure cross domain authorization to policy enforcement in enterprise mashups to MITM attacks on federation protocols, all have as their root... [04 Oct 2009]
SIM Card Based Security and Trust Management in Mobile Services
White Paper The SIM is integrated using standard internet protocols. The paper describes an architecture for mobile services where the SIM card is integrated as a personal security token for providing basic services related to... [04 Oct 2009]
Dynamic Routing With Security Considerations
White Paper The algorithm is easy to implement and compatible with popular routing protocols, such as the Routing Information Protocol in wired networks and Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector protocol in wireless networks,... [04 Oct 2009]
Extending BAN Logic for Reasoning With Modern PKI-Based Protocols
White Paper BAN Logic is a well-known authentication logic which, despite other more recent logics and formal methods, remains popular with many protocol designers. BAN Logic however does not properly deal with the issues of certificates and the use... [02 Oct 2009]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper A peer sampling protocol continuously provides each node in the system with a uniform random sample of the node population, and is an important building block for gossip-based protocols for information dissemination,... [02 Oct 2009]
Meraki White Paper: Wireless LAN Security
White Paper Finally, 802.11 protocols operate on unlicensed spectrum using well-understood protocols, resulting in a proliferation of devices that are able to access a corporate network. While security is important... [02 Oct 2009]
Management for VOIP and Unified Communications
White Paper Management tools must focus on the specific needs and characteristics of the new devices and protocols on the network. As enterprises introduce VOIP to their networks as the cornerstone of ensuing unified communications... [02 Oct 2009]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Paper As port-hopping needs that the communicating parties hop in a synchronized manner, these solutions suggest acknowledgment-based protocols between a client-server pair or assume the presence of synchronized clocks. [02 Oct 2009]
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
White Paper Usually, in this type of attack, an attempt is made to cause the attacked systems to crash by exploiting vulnerabilities in operating systems, programs and services or basic design flaws in the network protocols in use... [02 Oct 2009]
SIP: The Future of Open Communications
White Paper This white paper reviews the major advantages that standardized communication protocols and technologies can offer large enterprises, with a specific focus on SIP. Off late rapidly changing communications arena, large... [02 Oct 2009]
Understanding Voice over IP Signaling Protocols in Cisco Telephony Implementations
White Paper Understand the specific functions Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) signaling protocols perform and how this information will help you design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot a Cisco VoIP implementation. [01 Oct 2009]
Access control Lists (ACLs)
White Paper In Cisco IOS, ACLs are used for many things, including, but not limited to, filtering data packets (firewalling), controlling Telnet or SSH access to a router or switch, filtering routing protocols, specifying Quality of... [01 Oct 2009]