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• Building blocks of an identity management system

  Learn best practices for securing an identity management system for users inside and outside of the organization without reducing security effectiveness.  Continue Reading

• Access control issues: The unsolvable problem

  Access control issues can be remedied when properly implemented tools are used and today's developers avoid the mistakes made by their predecessors.  Continue Reading

• How a computer forensics investigation put two behind bars

  A computer forensics investigation lead by a computer-savvy investigator followed a network trail from a murder probe to a digital trove of child pornography.  Continue Reading

• How to ease password security problems

  Learn how self-service reset and password synchronization products are a new and cost-effective solution for easing enterprise password security problems.  Continue Reading

• How to limit IDS false positives, gain measurable security

  Learn how to limit IDS false positives and build a more secure enterprise by deploying network-based IDS and host-based IDS.  Continue Reading

• Where's the business smart card explosion?

  The U.S. has been slow to migrate to the smart card, which Europe and Asia have already adopted. Yet its functionality is becoming more practical and attractive to enterprises.  Continue Reading

• ISO 17799 implementation: Do your homework first

  While ISO 17799 implementation aims to provide security best practices by outlining sets of expectations and processes for protecting data, it leaves many yearning for more.  Continue Reading

• Digital rights management protection: The next level of data security

  Digital rights management technology not only protects and controls electronically distributed data, but also is a flexible enterprise solution that can lessen security breaches.  Continue Reading

• Secure reads: The CISSP Prep Guide, CISSP Exam Cram

  Although efficient study guides for cramming before the CISSP test, The CISSP Prep Guide and the CISSP Exam Cram won't advance the infosec profession and are likely plagiarized.  Continue Reading

• IIS server patching best practices

  Avoid the complications of IIS server patching by securing a system that is resistant to attacks.  Continue Reading

• Reduce Windows command line scripting risks with least privilege

  JP Vossen explains and demonstrates how least privilege can be used to prevent attackers from gaining administrative access when using Windows command line scripting.  Continue Reading

• Automate security with GUI shell and command line scripts

  JP Vossen explains how Windows command line scripts and the GUI shell can be used to improve security.  Continue Reading

• Four steps to sound security vulnerability management

  If you're bedeviled by swarms of alerts, you can take control by practicing good security vulnerability management with these four steps.  Continue Reading

• How security market needs transformed Network Flight Recorder

  Marcus Ranum's Network Flight Recorder was poised as a forensics tool when the market demanded IDSes -- so it adapted accordingly.  Continue Reading

• How network forensics analysis tools turn admins into detectives

  Network traffic capture, sophisticated analysis and forensics capabilities make network forensics analysis tools useful in making security assumptions and allocating resources.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise wireless security threats and responses

  Prepare your organization for potential wireless security threats by knowing how to respond to each type of issue.  Continue Reading

• Gateway filtering and server hardening: Security sans user complaints

  Incremental changes, including gateway filtering and server hardening, will lead to a tighter security model without provoking too much user backlash.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise access management products are important, but not easy

  Enterprise access management products offer solutions that are anything but plug-and-play. But with enough time and elbow grease, they can become a critical part of your Web access infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Network security case study: Inside the Cleveland Clinic

  Using a SIM system to monitor information in a DMZ, the Cleveland Clinic provides a network security case study from which others can learn.  Continue Reading