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whitepaper Microsoft FDCC Webcast Series: Making the Windows Firewall Work in an FDCC Environment2008-03-05 Microsoft
  This webcast cover the FDCC Windows Firewall settings for Windows XP and Vista and provide best practice recommendations on how customers can still perform key functions with the FDCC recommended settings in place. Topics that will be covered include configuring exceptions for key functions like File and Print sharing, remote desktop and administration, and programs. Key differences between the Windows XP firewall and the Advanced Firewall (included in Windows Vista) will be discussed as well.   
whitepaper Formal Verification of Firewall Policies2008-02-23 Michigan State University
  Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. The quality of protection provided by a firewall directly depends on the quality of its policy (i.e., configuration). Due to the lack of tools for verifying firewall policies, most firewalls on the Internet have been plagued with policy errors. 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, consequences. This paper proposes a firewall verification tool in this paper. This tool takes as input a firewall policy and a given property, then outputs whether the policy satisfies the property.

Tags: Security Tools		   
whitepaper Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console2008-02-21 Novell
 

Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual property accounted for more than 74 percent of IT financial losses last year. In particular, security on laptop/mobile devices is below the standard required to keep your information safe.

Read this white paper to see how Novell Zenworks acts as a single console solution to create an enforce security policies for all components of your perimeter.



Tags: Network Security, Security Management, Security Tools, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Secure Desktop On-Demand Webcast2008-02-21 Novell
  The desktop or endpoint is one of the most vulnerable parts of your environment. Threats are everywhere. You have users who love to experiment with device settings (only to wonder why they can't run an application). And then there are viruses, hackers, unauthorized USB devices and dozens of other external hazards. You need systems and processes that mitigate these risks and ensure desktop integrity. That's what the Secure Desktop Solution from Novell is all about. It's the only solution that keeps the endpoint secure by helping you measure, mitigate, audit and defend against internal and external threats.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management, Security Tools, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Security: New strides in preventing intrusions2007-06-06 IBM
  Need help eliminating risk in your IT environment? This IBM ForwardView webshow describes how security appliances, which incorporate an array of security functions, can help you ward off security breaches without breaking the bank or hiring more IT staff.

This webshow was featured in ForwardView, the premier IBM eMagazine that provides growing businesses with the latest news and trends at the nexus of business and IT. It's full of thought leadership and marketplace insight applied to real business problems.

Tags: Network Security, Security Tools, Intrusion Detection Systems, Best Practices		   
whitepaper Firewall Compressor: An Algorithm for Minimizing Firewall Policies2008-01-13 Michigan State University
  A firewall is a security guard placed between a private network and the outside Internet that monitors all incoming and outgoing packets. The function of a firewall is to examine every packet and decide whether to accept or discard it based upon the firewall's policy. This policy is specified as a sequence of (possibly conflicting) rules. With the explosive growth of Internet-based applications and malicious attacks, the number of rules in firewalls have been increasing rapidly, which consequently degrades network performance and throughput. This paper proposes Firewall Compressor, a framework that can significantly reduce the number of rules in a firewall while keeping the semantics of the firewall unchanged.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper Importance of Web Application Firewall Technology for Protecting Web-Based Resources2008-01-10 Cybertrust
  Web-based applications and services have changed the landscape of information delivery and exchange in today's corporate, government, and educational arenas. Ease of access, increased availability of information, and the richness of web services have universally increased productivity and operational efficiencies. These increases have led to heavier reliance on web-based services and greater integration of internal information systems and data repositories with web-facing applications. While motivations of attackers against a victim's corporate and organizational assets remain the same (financial, IP, identity theft, services disruption, or denial of service, for example), web applications enable a whole new class of vulnerabilities and exploit techniques such as SQL injection, cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and cross-site request forgery, to name a few.

Tags: Security Tools		   
whitepaper How Cisco IT Migrated to Stronger Firewall Protection for Large Sites2007-12-21 Cisco Systems
  Like other companies, Cisco Systems needs to connect its intranets to the public Internet to remain competitive and successful. But while connecting to the Internet is critical to Cisco's survival, it also exposes the network to potential attacks from anywhere in the world. Cisco IT and Cisco Information Security (InfoSec) collaborated to design, deploy, and manage an advanced firewall solution as a critical first line of defense. There are two general types of packet filtering performed by network firewalls : nonstateful inspection performed by Access Control Lists (ACLs), and stateful inspection performed by equipment such as Cisco PIX security appliances and the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM). Firewalls without stateful inspection have significant weaknesses.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper How Cisco IT Upgraded Intrusion Detection to Improve Scalability and Performance2007-12-19 Cisco Systems
  Comprehensive network security has no substitute. Firewalls are Cisco IT's first line of network defense, protecting against most intrusions from outside the network and intrusions into data centers. Firewalls are effective but limited in scope. Cisco IT needed more security at the network perimeter. Cisco deployed 35 Cisco IDS 4230 sensors worldwide. These sensors protect the network perimeter, alert IT staff when an intruder has penetrated the firewalls (or is within the firewalls), and captures data to help identify the IP address of the intruder.

Tags: Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems		   
whitepaper Policy-Driven Access Control Over a Distributed Firewall Architecture2007-12-01 University of London
  Motivated by a Grid based scientific application, where a dynamic collection of individuals and institutions are required to share resources to achieve certain goals, this paper propose the synthesis of two lines of research. The first line is Policy-Driven Access Control which treats policies as first-class objects that can be negotiated and tailored to particular roles. The second line is Distributed Firewalls that provide a dynamic and distributed security infrastructure bringing together peer-to-peer collaboration and hierarchical administration. Through this fusion one expects to deliver a scalable, dynamic and distributed method of setting up security infrastructures which has the benefits of allowing peer-to-peer collaboration, whilst maintaining the robustness and re-configurability of systems supplied by the central administration of the security policies.

Tags: Security Tools		   


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