Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "What CISOs need to know about computer forensics"
This article is part of the September 2007 issue of How to dig out rootkits
Don't trample evidence in a breach. Missteps in an investigation will cost you in court. From all indications, something bad had happened. After installing an intrusion prevention system, the security team at UW Medicine spotted several machines trying to communicate with an IRC botnet server in France. Cindy Jenkins, a security engineer and computer forensics expert at the medical and research organization, immediately went on a hunt for clues behind the suspicious activity. Hours spent combing through images of the hard drives from the infected PCs turned up the attackers' tools: an IRC bot, a rootkit and an FTP server. Passive network scanning detected more compromised systems. To save time, Jenkins made hash sets--digital fingerprints--of the malware so she could look just for the hash sets when inspecting additional images. She determined the machines were infected 18 to 24 months earlier--before the IPS and other security measures were installed. It appeared that UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, had been attacked by resource hogs--... Access >>>
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Database Security: Oracle Database Vault
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What CISOs need to know about computer forensics
With computer forensics needed for civil litigation, human resources investigations and criminal cases, organizations need to ensure they're prepared and evidence is preserved. This feature details steps involved in computer forensics, common missteps, and forensics resources.
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Consolidation's impact on best-of-breed security
Standalone security vendors are attractive targets for large infrastructure players such as EMC. This feature looks at the consolidation in the security market and the potential for best-of-breed security to eventually disolve into a mashup of suites and services by big vendors like EMC, IBM, Microsoft, and HP.
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Intrusion Prevention: Stonesoft's SGI-2000S IPS
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HIPS
CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System
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Database Security: Oracle Database Vault
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Malware Analysis
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Rootkit detection and removal know-how
Get advice on how to detect malware and rootkits and the best ways to achieve rootkit removal and prevent hacker attacks.
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Logical, physical security integration challenges
Integrating physical and IT security can reap considerable benefits for an organization, including enhanced efficiency and compliance plus improved security. But convergence isn't easy. Challenges include bringing the physical and IT security teams together, combining heterogenous systems, and upgrading a patchwork of physical access systems.
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SIM and NBA product combination is powerful
The recent announcement that Mazu Networks, a provider of network-based analysis (NBA) tools, and eIQnetworks, a supplier of SIM products, underscores the trend towards convergence in the NBA and SIM markets. The value proposition is clear: two useful network/security data analysis tools in one integrated package.
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Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum debate home users and security
by Marcus J. Ranum, Contributor
Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum debate how to deal with the security problems posed by home computer users. Both dismiss user education, but Schneier believes ISPs should be forced to become IT departments while Ranum argues that building simpler systems is not the answer.
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Ping: Nate Lawson
Nate Lawson
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Perspectives: The Lesson of Estonia
Prof. Dorothy Denning writes the cyberattacks on Estonia and how they took activism to a new level.
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Time to take cyberterrorism talk seriously
With the power of botnets, SCADA systems becoming less proprietary and the recent attacks on Estonia, have we reached an inflection point where we need to take the likelihood of cyberterrorism?
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Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum debate home users and security
by Marcus J. Ranum, Contributor
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