Traditionally, the area of information security has been purely defensive. Classic examples of the defensive mechanisms used in order to protect communication networks include firewalls, encryption and IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems). The strategy follows the classical security paradigm of "Protect, Detect and React.” In other words, try to protect the network as best as possible, [...]
How to Use Honeypots to Improve Your Network Security
August 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: · antivirus, Encryption, Firewall, Honeypots, Intrusion Detection, Malware, Network Security
Tips For Improving Users Security Awareness
February 15th, 2008 · Comments Off
As much as most IT managers wish otherwise, security remains a top concern of most departments. According to a recent survey commissioned by GFI (www.gfi.com) of senior executives and IT managers at more than 450 small to midsized enterprises, security and system downtime are their top daily concerns, with 71% of respondents mentioning both.
Tags: · antispam, antivirus, Firewall, security
Barracuda defends open source antivirus from patent attack
February 10th, 2008 · Comments Off
Mail and security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks announced plans today to defend the open-source ClamAV antivirus program from dubious patent threats made by Trend Micro, a prominent security software company. Trend Micro claims that its US Patent 5,623,600 broadly covers the concept of server-based antivirus software on FTP and SMTP gateways.
Tags: · antivirus, ClamAV antivirus, E-Mail Security
Yet Another Way to Evade NIDS
November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off
Anonymous proxy services are online applications that enable users to surf the Web with enhanced privacy. These applications act as an SSL proxy between the user and the Web site to be visited, thus masking the IP address and providing additional privacy features, such as referrer hiding, script removal, cookies removal, and URL encoding. Proxify [...]