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Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded 5.1 End User Training

whitepaper This webcast will cover key benefits of Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded, which offers the most advanced defense against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malicious code attacking and infecting for specialized devices...

Tags: embedded systems

[16 May 2008]

A Firewall for Routers: Protecting Against Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[15 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]

Diverse Firewall Design

whitepaper An error in a firewall policy 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...

Tags: firewalls

[04 May 2008]

A Firewall for Routers: Protect Again Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[03 May 2008]

Formal Verification 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

[03 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Deploying ISA Server 2004 to Protect Internal Network Segments From RPC-Based Attacks (Level 300)

whitepaper It is all too common to encounter malicious code that end users have inadvertently installed on their systems. This webcast describes how deploying an application layer filtering solution such as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Securing Your Messaging Traffic - Comprehensive Protection for Your Microsoft ISA Servers (Level 200)

whitepaper Microsoft ISA Server works to keep inappropriate traffic and users out of the network and confidential data, but how are people making sure that the traffic that gets through is free from malicious code and inappropriate material?

Tags: application servers

[12 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper The ubiquitous deployment of firewalls at the border between external and corporate network segments has brought significant improvements in protection against malicious code and unwanted traffic. However, the traditional client-server paradigm...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast shows how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and malicious software (malware)-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The webcast describes how Microsoft IT uses...

Tags: network security

[11 Apr 2008]

LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks

whitepaper A particularly devastating attack is known as the wormhole attack, where a malicious node records control and data traffic at one location and tunnels it to a colluding node far away, which replays it locally.

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System Signature Obfuscation Vulnerability

whitepaper Intrusion Detection Systems inspect network traffic for suspect or malicious packet formats, data payloads and traffic patterns. Intrusion detection systems typically implement obfuscation defense - ensuring that suspect packets cannot easily be...

Tags: network security, technique, detection, traffic

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life

Photo Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. This pretty vision is Netsky - a worm that consistently poses a threat via email traffic.

Tags: art, viruses, messagelabs, phishing

[06 Mar 2008]

Monitoring Network Traffic With Radial Traffic Analyzer

whitepaper Extensive spread of malicious code on the Internet and also within intranets has risen the user's concern about what kind of data is transferred between her or his computer and other hosts on the network.

Tags: monitoring systems

[03 Mar 2008]

IPS Vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath

whitepaper IPS and IDS both detect malicious or unwanted traffic. Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for attacks, there are critical differences. A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion...

Tags: network security

[28 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment Not all aspects of file-sharing are illegal and distinguishing the legitimate from the malicious will not be easy. His thinking is ISPs ought not to escape some level of liability given they ultimately reap the financial benefits of such internet...

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

High Performance Network Security

whitepaper An IPS can effectively bring both deep packet inspection and stateful pattern matching together with security enforcement and blocking to recognize and stop malicious traffic. Security appliances are now a mainstay in the corporate security arsenal.

Tags: monitoring systems

[07 Feb 2008]

Detecting Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks by Analyzing TCP SYN Packets Statistically

whitepaper More are SYN Flood attacks, since the malicious attackers can easily exploit the TCP specification to generate traffic making public servers unavailable. To assure that network services will not be interrupted, the author needs faster and more...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

High-Speed Router Filter for Blocking TCP Flooding Under DDoS Attack

whitepaper This paper presents a hardware solution that can reliably block most of the malicious TCP traffic at the edge routers while passing the legitimate TCP traffic during the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia

whitepaper First, the community maintains a strong resilience to malicious editing, despite tremendous growth and high traffic. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has attracted attention both because of its popularity and its unconventional policy of letting...

Tags: search strategies

[08 Jan 2008]

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