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Detection and Removal of Firewall Misconfiguration

whitepaper To police network traffic, firewalls must be configured with a set of filtering rules. The approach is based on the analysis of relationships between the set of filtering rules. The existence of errors in this set is very likely to degrade the...

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

Gruppo Iper Secures Market Leadership by Ensuring Data Integrity and Accessibility Across the Enterprise

whitepaper The challenge was to consolidate monitoring of the group's logistics and commercial operations and improve control of information flows and integrate data from different sources to reduce network traffic and to make detailed business analysis...

Tags: database management

[14 May 2008]

An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol

whitepaper Analysis is performed by careful study of Skype network traffic. Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 May 2008]

On the Safety and Efficiency of Firewall Policy Deployment

whitepaper It show that naive deployment approaches can easily create a temporary security hole by permitting illegal traffic, or interrupt service by rejecting legal traffic during the deployment. While ample research has led to tools for policy...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Data Mining Techniques

whitepaper These firewall rules are mostly custom-designed and hand-written thus in constant need for tuning and validation, due to the dynamic nature of the traffic characteristics, ever-changing network environment and its market demands.

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies

whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Using RSPAN With VACLs for Granular Traffic Analysis

whitepaper RSPAN is another traffic-mirroring technology that allows users to extend the scope of their analysis to encompass multiple switches that are interconnected in the same Layer 2 domain. This paper demonstrates how to combine two powerful features...

Tags: switching

[02 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Advanced Client Network Traffic Analysis - Level 300

whitepaper For a Systems Management Server administrator, understanding the network traffic patterns of SMS clients is an important consideration. The presenter of this webcast analyzes the typical traffic generated by an SMS 2003 Advanced Client during...

Tags: monitoring systems

[02 May 2008]

Traffic Analysis: From Stateful Firewall to Network Intrusion Detection System

whitepaper This paper investigates traffic analysis techniques need in stateful firewall and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). This calls for the necessity of analyzing the traffic (packets) on the network.

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Internet Firewalls

whitepaper Firewalls protect a trusted network from an untrusted network by filtering traffic according to a specified security policy. A diverse set of firewalls is being used today. As it is infeasible to examine and test each firewall for all possible...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Oracle Real User Experience Insight

whitepaper UXinsight is a powerful solution for monitoring Web traffic. Data capture is based on Network Protocol Analysis (NPA). Typically, it is installed before the Web servers, behind a firewall in the DMZ, and required minimal maintenance.

Tags: monitoring systems, browser, interface, browser interface

[17 Apr 2008]

Help Desk - Call Centre or Dispatch Centre?

whitepaper A detailed analysis is required of the traffic profiles, call types, business impacts, staff skills and shift arrangements to answer the question. Each approach to the provision of help desk services has its advantages and disadvantages.

Tags: help desk

[12 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Nicholas Bohm, the FIPR's general counsel, said last week "the illegality stems… from the fact that the system intercepts internet traffic". The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding of how the law was [to be...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Impact of Data Traffic Composition on GPRS Performance

whitepaper A detailed statistical analysis of GPRS traffic per service at different levels has been carried on live measurements. The topic of this paper is the evaluation of the impact of data traffic composition on GPRS performance.

Tags: traffic, gprs, evaluation, capacity

[11 Apr 2008]

A New Intrusion Detection System Using Support Vector Machines and Hierarchical Clustering

whitepaper This can be done by sending large amounts of network traffic, exploiting well-known faults in networking services, and by overloading network hosts. This paper presents a study for enhancing the training time of SVM, specifically when dealing with...

Tags: network security

[11 Apr 2008]

ATM Over ADSL Probe in Telecom Italia Environment

whitepaper In the scenario presented in this paper, data traffic leaves customer site as ATM traffic running over ADSL modem links, gets aggregated via DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) at the central office (CO) and then dropped onto the high-speed ATM...

Tags: atm, atm, traffic, adsl

[10 Apr 2008]

Migrating to Multiservice Networks - A Planning Guide

whitepaper This planning guide reviews the decisions to consider when evolving data-only networks toward a more robust multi service infrastructure that can include data, voice, and video traffic. The steps involved are Network audit, Network objectives...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, multi, service infrastructure, multi service

[10 Apr 2008]

Close the Zero-Hour Gap: Protection from Emerging Virus Threats

whitepaper The latest advances in network traffic analysis and recurrent pattern detection. To exploit the "zero hour gap," or the time it takes to identify attacking malware and write signatures that detect and neutralize it, virus writers are using several...

Tags: security management, virus, span, malware

[07 Apr 2008]

Using Cisco Network Planning Solution for Capacity Planning and Optimization

whitepaper It explains how Cisco NPS identifies traffic trends in the current network, forecasts what traffic levels will be in the future, assesses whether the existing network capacity is sufficient to handle the projected load, and automatically redesigns...

Tags: network design

[03 Apr 2008]

How Cisco IT Uses Analysis Module to Gather Information on Host, Network, and Application Traffic

whitepaper The NAM is an integrated traffic monitoring service module that occupies a single slot in the chassis of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch. The Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) was the answer. The Cisco team needed a solution that could...

Tags: switching

[04 Mar 2008]

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