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White Papers
Why 2011 Is The Year of video conferencing
Aug 2011
As industry consultants and analysts, we are beginning to see a dramatic shift towards video conferencing and its use. Most of our enterprise clients are beginning to show significant interest and...
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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White Papers
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report
Aug 2011
An annual report sponsored by Symantec detailing the trends of Internet security threats for the year 2010. Provides extensive facts and figures establishing these threats, as compiled from the...
Provided by CDW & Symantec
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White Papers
Video Conferencing Deep Dive - What the Market Is Saying, Considering the Leading Manufacturers, and Latest Trends
Aug 2011
Video conferencing usage and the need for this technology are surging in the marketplace. Significant growth is expected in this market segment. A recent Network World report indicated that the...
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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Webcasts
SonicWALL and Gartner Discuss Next-Generation Firewall: Driving Productivity, Security & Efficiencies Webcast
Jan 2009
Network and application usage is dramatically changing the way networks are designed, managed and protected. The need for bandwidth is increasing and users are becoming more technically savvy. At...
Provided by SonicWALL
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White Papers
Research on Packet Filter Rules of the Firewall Based on Visual Prolog
Oct 2008
The packet filter rules of firewall are established according to the needs of network security, while to manage filter rules becomes more and more complicated, and easy to make mistakes,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Webcasts
Securing Shared Virtual Infrastructure With Virtual Firewalls
Jun 2009
Enterprises and service providers are increasingly sharing physical hosts among multiple departments and customers, requiring strong isolation between virtual machines. The new VMware VMsafe APIs...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
What Every Company Should Know About Sarbanes-Oxley and Instant Messaging
Jan 2005
Instant Messaging – authorized or not - is subject to an increasing number of industry and government regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley. Failing to comply with SOX can result in significant financial...
Provided by Akonix
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White Papers
Verify Consistency Between Security Policy and Firewall Policy With Answer Set Programming
Oct 2008
Firewalls are core elements in network security, the effectiveness of firewall security is dependent on configuring firewall policy correctly. Firewall policy is a lower-level policy which...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Webcasts
Web Application Firewall: A Cost Effective Way to Improve Web Application Security
Jan 2009
With all the options out there today, it's hard to know who to trust. This webcast will help to find cost effective ways to improve the web application security. The presenter of this webcast will...
Provided by Breach Security
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White Papers
HD Video Communications Special Report - Top 10 Questions to Ask Before Purchasing Video Conferencing
Aug 2011
Today's smart businesses are looking for ways to improve productivity and efficiency, making the most of the resources they have. In theory, video conferencing has always offered this promise....
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: ISA 2006 Firewall and Proxy Services (Level 200)
Dec 2007
This webcast describes how to use the firewall and proxy services in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 to allow secure connectivity to internal resources from external...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: ISA Server 2006 Firewall and Proxy Services (Level 200)
May 2007
The presenter of this webcast describes how to use the firewall and proxy services in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 to allow secure connectivity to internal...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
A Systematic Methodology for Firewall Penetration Testing
Jan 2009
Firewall testing is one of the most useful of a set of alternatives for evaluating the security effectiveness of a firewall. A major advantage of firewall testing is being able to empirically...
Provided by SRI Consulting
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White Papers
The Business Case for Web Application Firewalls
Sep 2008
Web application firewalls offer a variety of business benefits such as rapid application deployment, significant cost savings and increased communication between development and security teams. In...
Provided by Breach Security
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Webcasts
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Introduction
Jan 2009
This webcast will give introduction of Barracuda spam & virus firewall.
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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White Papers
Automatic Detection of Firewall Misconfigurations Using Firewall and Network Routing Policies
May 2009
Firewalls are the most prevalent and important means of enforcing security policies inside networks and across organizational boundaries. However, effective and fault free firewall management in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Core CS & Core PS Network High-Level Security Requirements
Jan 2007
The scope of this paper is to outline cellular network operator requirements on basic principles for Core network security architecture and to provide security requirements for core network...
Provided by Mobile Network Security
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White Papers
Configuring Firewall Load Balancing
Aug 2006
This paper describes how to configure firewall load balancing on the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module. Firewall load balancing allows to scale firewall protection by distributing...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Anchiva Hardware Scanning Engine
Mar 2009
Traditional hardware acceleration technology in security appliances such as firewalls is focused mainly at accelerating packet processing at the network layer. This technology is useful in...
Provided by Anchiva Systems
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White Papers
Keeping emails private - why businesses need email encryption
Jan 2009
With so much at stake, what are the risks of sending unencrypted emails, what are the options for keeping emails private and what are the benefits of the MessageLabs Policy Based Encryption...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
HP Data Protector Software - Configuration of Manager of Managers (MoM) in a Secure Firewall Environment
Aug 2009
This paper describes how to setup and configure Manager of Managers (MoM) in a secure firewall environment. HP Data Protector software is a backup and disaster-recovery software that provides...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Presentations
Firewall Basics for the Beginning User
Apr 2004
Designed for end-user training, this PowerPoint presentation offers a detailed, yet easy-to-understand explanation of how personal firewall software works, what it can and cannot protect against,...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
The Margrave Tool for Firewall Analysis
Oct 2010
Writing and maintaining firewall configurations can be challenging, even for experienced system administrators. Tools that uncover the consequences of configurations and edits to them can help...
Provided by Brown University
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Improving Desktop Security and Deployment (Part 5 of 7): Deploying IPSec With Windows Vista (Level 200)
Nov 2007
The presenter of this webcast looks at the new network stack in the Windows Vista operating system, and talks about how innovations in the stack can help secure the network by enabling new...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Firewall Transversal in Communications Server 2007 (Level 300)
Apr 2008
The ability to transverse firewalls is very important to how Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows VoIP calls in a secure manner. The presenter of this webcast talks in depth about...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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Webcasts
Integrated Intrusion Prevention & the Network Firewall
Jan 2009
Most people think of integrated intrusion prevention as standalone or dedicated IPS appliances or software. However, in many situations, the actual need is for intrusion prevention that is...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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Case Studies
East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
Jan 2009
East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system....
Provided by 3Com
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Case Studies
Investment in 3Com Security Technology Yields Top Marks for Ibmec Educational Institute
Jan 2009
Ibmec is dedicated to educational and professional training in business, law, and economics, with five facilities located in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Security has...
Provided by 3Com
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Case Studies
Award Winning Australian University Chooses 3Com as It Expands Into Dubai Knowledge Village
Jan 2009
In 2000, the University of Wollongong won Australia's most prestigious higher education award, 'University of the Year.' The university is acclaimed for its effective application of digital...
Provided by 3Com
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White Papers
The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment
Jun 2009
When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable...
Provided by Pacific Coast Information Systems
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White Papers
Enabling End-to-end IP Visual Communication by Securely Traversing Firewalls and NATs with TANDBERG Expressway
Jun 2009
TANDBERG's Expressway is the right solution for secure firewall and network address translation traversal. While there are a few solutions available, many are expensive, not secure, not available...
Provided by TANDBERG, now part of Cisco
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Webcasts
Better Customer Service with a Decision-Oriented Enterprise
Jun 2009
Watch the webcast to learn about the benefits of a decision-oriented enterprise, the market drivers, and how you can make your business decision driven.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
UserGate Firewall & Proxy 5.0
Oct 2008
UserGate Firewall & Proxy 5.0 is a secure server with anti-virus & anti-spam, built-in firewall with NAT and web content filtering proxy for controlled Internet sharing. Access Internet from LAN...
Provided by Entensys
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White Papers
EAD Technology White Paper
Sep 2008
EAD is a solution to network endpoint access control. By cooperation of the security clients, access devices, security policy server, and third-party server, it enhances the active defense ability...
Provided by H3C Technologies
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White Papers
Designing a Hardware-Accelerated Firewall With Two 10 Gbps Ports
Dec 2008
High-speed packet filtering should be one of the first steps in securing any modern computer network. However, solutions over 1 Gbps are practically impossible to implement in software, and must...
Provided by CESNET
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Webcasts
Messagelabs - IT Security Threats of Today and Tommorrow Webcast Supporting Doc
Jun 2009
This document supports th silicon.com webcast which discusses some of the security threats to IT systems that organisations have to face on a daily basis - and what do about them. With real life...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
SPML: A Visual Approach for Modeling Firewall Configurations
Sep 2008
This paper describes a graphical notation for modeling security policy, currently focused on firewalls, named SPML. Using SPML, it is possible to specify graphically the security policy to be...
Provided by Unoeste - Todos os direitos reservados
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White Papers
How to Painlessly Audit Your Firewalls in Three Easy Steps: An Introduction to Automated Firewall Auditing
Nov 2008
Firewalls are the first line of defense for the business network. When the internet started to become a critical business communications tool, the firewall became the first line of defense. This...
Provided by Skybox Security
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White Papers
Reducing Costs With Next Generation Firewalls: Investing in Innovation Pays Cost Savings Dividends
Dec 2008
For enterprise IT security organizations, the evolution of applications and threats, coupled with the stagnation of traditional network security technology has resulted in a loss of visibility and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
It's Time to Fix the Firewall: Re-Establishing the Firewall as the Cornerstone of Enterprise Network Security
Feb 2009
For the last 15 years, port-blocking firewalls have been the cornerstone of enterprise network security. But much like a stone, they've stood still in the face of rapidly evolving applications and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
Privacy in the Pervasive Era: A Distributed Firewall Approach
Dec 2011
This paper presents a novel protocol for the support of audio/video streaming in a vehicular network. The protocol is based on localization and timing, both of them obtained via satellite...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Source Prefix Filtering in ROFL
Jul 2009
Traditional firewalls have the ability to allow or block traffic based on source address as well as destination address and port number. The authors' original ROFL scheme implements firewalling by...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
A Universal Access Control Method Based on Host Identifiers for Future Internet
Dec 2010
There have been many security events in the Internet. Many of them are due to arbitrary access permissions to the network resources of the malicious users, especially their free sending packets to...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A Stochastic Model of the Damage Propagation in Database Systems
Mar 2009
Security defense tools like firewalls and antivirus software's are not sufficient to defend against dynamic threats to database systems. Successful attacks could not only seriously impair the...
Provided by The Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
TokDoc: A Self-Healing Web Application Firewall
Mar 2010
The growing amount of web-based attacks poses a severe threat to the security of web applications. Signature-based detection techniques increasingly fail to cope with the variety and complexity of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Firewalling Wireless Sensor Networks: Security by Wireless
Jul 2008
Networked sensors and actuators for purposes from production monitoring and control to home automation are in increasing demand. Until recently, the main focus laid on wired systems, although...
Provided by University of Kaiserslautern
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White Papers
WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks
Aug 2011
Firewalls are extremely effective at enforcing security policies in wired networks. Perhaps surprisingly, firewalls are entirely nonexistent in the wireless domain. Yet, the need to selectively...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
M2KMIX: Identifying the Type of High Rate Flooding Attacks using a Mixture of Expert Systems
Feb 2012
High rate flooding attacks such as SYN flood, UDP flood, and HTTP flood have been posing a perilous threat to Web servers, DNS servers, Mail servers, VoIP servers, etc. These high rate flooding...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Routers Packet Classification Using Configuration Machine
Dec 2011
The packet classification is the vital part mechanism that leads to create many networking services in the internet such as firewall packet filtering and traffic accounting. So, the packet...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Collaborative Firewalling in Wireless Networks
Mar 2011
Firewalls are one of the essential security elements to enforce access policies in computer networks. Open network architecture, shared wireless medium, stringent resource constraints, and highly...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Comparative Analysis of Network Forensic Systems
Oct 2011
Network forensics is scientifically proven techniques to collect, detect, identify, examine, correlate, analyze, and document digital evidence from multiple systems for the purpose of uncovering...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Secure Signaling in Next Generation Networks With NSIS
Mar 2009
The IETF working group Next Steps In Signaling (NSIS) develops signaling protocols for Quality-of-Service (QoS) reservations or dynamic NAT and FireWall (NAT/FW) configuration. QoS signaling...
Provided by Universitat Karlsruhe
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White Papers
The Research and Design of Intelligent IPS Model Based on Dynamic Cloud Firewall Linkage
Mar 2011
The cloud security is a new technology and developing trend in the field of internet and network security. On the basis of summarizing the cloud security's characteristics, superiority and core...
Provided by Shanghai Dianji University
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White Papers
No More Middlebox: Integrate Processing Into Network
Sep 2010
Traditionally, in-network services like firewall, proxy, cache, and transcoders have been provided by dedicated hardware middleboxes. A recent trend has been to remove the middleboxes by deploying...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
To Study the Risk or Issues of Firewall: Solution With Different Approach
Dec 2011
Firewalls is very useful things for internet security problems for data transmission or other purpose but some times firewalls have some problems which are discussed in this research paper....
Provided by Ganpat University
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White Papers
Approach of Data Security in Local Network Using Distributed Firewalls
Dec 2011
Firewall is a device or set of instruments designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and regulation is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access...
Provided by Ganpat University
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White Papers
Development of Smart Firewall Load Balancing Framework for Multiple Firewalls With an Efficient Heuristic Firewall Rule Set
Jan 2012
Firewalls are the devices that the authors are used to protect data. It might be configured to allow certain devices or applications to access their network. The Firewalls are termed as stateful...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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White Papers
Linear-Tree Rule Structure for Firewall Optimization
Apr 2007
Given a list of filtering rules with individual hitting probabilities, it is known that the average processing time of a linear-search based firewall can be minimized by searching rules in some...
Provided by Kyoto University
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White Papers
A Novel Data-Oriented Name Service
Oct 2010
The Internet has evolved from its original design. The user cares about what they are looking for, not which machine provides the data or the service. The host-to-host Internet tends to become a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Heuristic Process for Local Inconsistency Diagnosis in Firewall Rule Sets
Oct 2009
Writing and managing firewall ACLs are hard and error-prone tasks for a wide range of reasons. During these tasks, inconsistent rules can be introduced. An inconsistent firewall ACL implies in...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
HOSPITAL: Host and Network System Profiler and Internet Traffic Analyzer
Nov 2010
The ever-increasing complexity and diversity of the Internet pose several challenges to network operators and administrators and, in general, Internet users. More specifically, because of the...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
From Prey to Hunter
Dec 2010
The authors' global communication infrastructures are powered by large numbers of legacy embedded devices. Recent advances in offensive technologies targeting embedded systems have shown that the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Performance Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Network Firewalls
Mar 2011
Firewalls are no longer just perimeter devices for the data center, but should be weaved into the fabric of the network from edge to edge such as to offer security layered in-depth and ubiquitous....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Malware Software, Patch Management, and Host- Based Firewalls in Preventing Malware Infections on Client Computers
Apr 2008
This purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of three methods used by organizations to prevent malware on client computers. These methods include anti-malware software, patch...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Timeouts With Time-Reversed Linear Probing
Mar 2011
The authors consider portable software implementations of hash tables with timeouts. The context is a high volume stream of keyed items. When a new item arrives, they want to know if has been seen...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Protecting Data From the Cyber Theft - A Virulent Disease
May 2010
Network security policies are essential elements in Internet security. Network security perimeter devices such as firewalls, IPSec, and IDS/IPS devices operate based on locally configured...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Podcasts
Using WAF in Complex, Global Environments
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses about the importance of application security at Vonage. The speaker details several projects that are aimed at protecting Vonage as well as Vonage partners...
Provided by Imperva
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Podcasts
Microsoft IIS WebDAV Remote Authentication Bypass
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker talks about Microsoft Security. This vulnerability is related to Microsoft IIS servers running WebDAV. Amichai goes into detail about the vulnerability, why servers...
Provided by Imperva
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Podcasts
Protecting Web Portals and Bringing Together Security Operations and Development With the Imperva SecureSphere WAF at Telefonica O2 Germany
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker shares his experiences around choosing, implementing and operating the Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF). The speaker shares a number of examples...
Provided by Imperva
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Webcasts
Cisco Nexus 1000V and VSphere
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter introducing the new features in vSphere 4.0 for virtual networking. This includes the Virtual Network vMotion, virtual network appliances (such as firewalls) and the...
Provided by Itex Enterprise
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Webcasts
VMware VNetwork Distributed Switch and VSphere
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter introducing the new features in vSphere 4.0 for virtual networking. This includes the Virtual Network vMotion, virtual network appliances (such as firewalls) and the...
Provided by Itex Enterprise
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White Papers
Packet Filtering Using IP Tables in Linux
Jul 2011
Firewalls are core elements in network security. However, managing firewall rules, especially for enterprise networks, has become complex and error-prone. Firewall filtering rules have to be...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Implementation of Portion Approach in Distributed Firewall Application for Network Security Framework
Nov 2011
The stimulate of this research seeks collaboration of firewalls which, could reach to the capability of distributed points of security policy; the front-end entity may much interact by the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Firewall Verification and Redundancy Checking Are Equivalent
Mar 2011
A firewall is a packet filter that is placed at the entrance of a private network. It checks the header fields of each incoming packet into the private network and decides, based on the specified...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Cross-Domain Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Cooperative Firewall Optimization
Mar 2011
Firewalls have been widely deployed on the Internet for securing private networks. A firewall checks each incoming or outgoing packet to decide whether to accept or discard the packet based on its...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Firewall Issues Overview
Oct 2006
Several kinds of network devices like Firewalls are used to protect an institutional network against malicious attacks from the public Internet. This paper enumerates and illustrates a selected...
Provided by Open Grid Forum
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White Papers
PCIU: Hardware Implementations of an Efficient Packet Classification Algorithm with an Incremental Update Capability
Jul 2011
Packet classification plays a crucial role for a number of network services such as policy-based routing, firewalls, and traffic billing, to name a few. However, classification can be a bottleneck...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Case Studies
Employment Firm Improves Communications and Productivity
Apr 2007
Human Potential Consulting (HPC), based in California, was founded in 1997 to provide a second chance for the jobless. The business challenges were increase staff productivity to keep pace with...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
Screencast: Oracle Database Firewall
Oct 2011
What is a database firewall? What are the important selection criteria in choosing a database firewall? These questions and more are answered by Vipin Samar, Vice President of Oracle Database...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
SecureSphere Web Application Firewall - Vulnerability Assessment Integration
Jan 2011
This webcast demonstrates how the Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall integrates with application vulnerability scanners. Watch this video to find out how SecureSphere creates policies...
Provided by Imperva
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White Papers
A Systematic Methodology for Firewall Penetration Testing
Jan 2009
Firewall testing is one of the most useful of a set of alternatives for evaluating the security effectiveness of a firewall. A major advantage of firewall testing is being able to empirically...
Provided by SRI Consulting
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White Papers
Why 2011 Is The Year of video conferencing
Aug 2011
As industry consultants and analysts, we are beginning to see a dramatic shift towards video conferencing and its use. Most of our enterprise clients are beginning to show significant interest and...
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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White Papers
Reducing PCI DSS Scope with the TransArmorSM Solution
Aug 2011
Organizations who handle payment card data are obligated to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This whitepaper discusses how the TransArmor solution can enable...
Provided by First Data
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White Papers
HD Video Communications Special Report - Top 10 Questions to Ask Before Purchasing Video Conferencing
Aug 2011
Today's smart businesses are looking for ways to improve productivity and efficiency, making the most of the resources they have. In theory, video conferencing has always offered this promise....
Provided by LifeSize Communications
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Case Studies
East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
Jan 2009
East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system....
Provided by 3Com
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Case Studies
Investment in 3Com Security Technology Yields Top Marks for Ibmec Educational Institute
Jan 2009
Ibmec is dedicated to educational and professional training in business, law, and economics, with five facilities located in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Security has...
Provided by 3Com
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Case Studies
Award Winning Australian University Chooses 3Com as It Expands Into Dubai Knowledge Village
Jan 2009
In 2000, the University of Wollongong won Australia's most prestigious higher education award, 'University of the Year.' The university is acclaimed for its effective application of digital...
Provided by 3Com
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White Papers
The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment
Jun 2009
When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable...
Provided by Pacific Coast Information Systems
-
White Papers
Enabling End-to-end IP Visual Communication by Securely Traversing Firewalls and NATs with TANDBERG Expressway
Jun 2009
TANDBERG's Expressway is the right solution for secure firewall and network address translation traversal. While there are a few solutions available, many are expensive, not secure, not available...
Provided by TANDBERG, now part of Cisco
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Webcasts
Better Customer Service with a Decision-Oriented Enterprise
Jun 2009
Watch the webcast to learn about the benefits of a decision-oriented enterprise, the market drivers, and how you can make your business decision driven.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
UserGate Firewall & Proxy 5.0
Oct 2008
UserGate Firewall & Proxy 5.0 is a secure server with anti-virus & anti-spam, built-in firewall with NAT and web content filtering proxy for controlled Internet sharing. Access Internet from LAN...
Provided by Entensys
-
White Papers
EAD Technology White Paper
Sep 2008
EAD is a solution to network endpoint access control. By cooperation of the security clients, access devices, security policy server, and third-party server, it enhances the active defense ability...
Provided by H3C Technologies
-
White Papers
Designing a Hardware-Accelerated Firewall With Two 10 Gbps Ports
Dec 2008
High-speed packet filtering should be one of the first steps in securing any modern computer network. However, solutions over 1 Gbps are practically impossible to implement in software, and must...
Provided by CESNET
-
Webcasts
Messagelabs - IT Security Threats of Today and Tommorrow Webcast Supporting Doc
Jun 2009
This document supports th silicon.com webcast which discusses some of the security threats to IT systems that organisations have to face on a daily basis - and what do about them. With real life...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
White Papers
Anchiva Hardware Scanning Engine
Mar 2009
Traditional hardware acceleration technology in security appliances such as firewalls is focused mainly at accelerating packet processing at the network layer. This technology is useful in...
Provided by Anchiva Systems
-
White Papers
SPML: A Visual Approach for Modeling Firewall Configurations
Sep 2008
This paper describes a graphical notation for modeling security policy, currently focused on firewalls, named SPML. Using SPML, it is possible to specify graphically the security policy to be...
Provided by Unoeste - Todos os direitos reservados
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White Papers
How to Painlessly Audit Your Firewalls in Three Easy Steps: An Introduction to Automated Firewall Auditing
Nov 2008
Firewalls are the first line of defense for the business network. When the internet started to become a critical business communications tool, the firewall became the first line of defense. This...
Provided by Skybox Security
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White Papers
Reducing Costs With Next Generation Firewalls: Investing in Innovation Pays Cost Savings Dividends
Dec 2008
For enterprise IT security organizations, the evolution of applications and threats, coupled with the stagnation of traditional network security technology has resulted in a loss of visibility and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
It's Time to Fix the Firewall: Re-Establishing the Firewall as the Cornerstone of Enterprise Network Security
Feb 2009
For the last 15 years, port-blocking firewalls have been the cornerstone of enterprise network security. But much like a stone, they've stood still in the face of rapidly evolving applications and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
Fast Algorithms for Local Inconsistency Detection in Firewall ACL Updates
Jun 2008
Filtering is a very important issue in next generation networks. These networks consist of a relatively high number of resource constrained devices with very special features, such as managing...
Provided by Universidad de Sevilla
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White Papers
Usability Study of Vista's Firewall Using Respondent Methods
Nov 2007
A firewall is one of the most important security tools against network attacks. Microsoft, in its new version of the Windows, Vista, offered a new firewall with plethora of advance features that...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Securing Physical and Virtual IT Assets Without Hardware Firewalls or VLANs - A New Approach: An Identity-Aware Network Inside the Perimeter
Feb 2009
For security administrators at large corporations, the growing management complexity of internal firewalls and Virtual LANs (VLANs) presents significant security challenges. The growing reliance...
Provided by Apani Networks
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White Papers
Intrusion Defense Firewall: Network-Level HIPS at the Endpoint
Oct 2008
Mobile computers that connect directly to the Internet outside of a company's firewall can introduce risk into the corporate network and thus require a higher level of security to protect against...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Verify Consistency Between Security Policy and Firewall Policy With Answer Set Programming
Oct 2008
Firewalls are core elements in network security, the effectiveness of firewall security is dependent on configuring firewall policy correctly. Firewall policy is a lower-level policy which...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Research on Packet Filter Rules of the Firewall Based on Visual Prolog
Oct 2008
The packet filter rules of firewall are established according to the needs of network security, while to manage filter rules becomes more and more complicated, and easy to make mistakes,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Patterns for Application Firewalls
Jan 2009
Enterprise applications are typically implemented as web applications and may use web services. This provides a flexible architecture suitable for B2B communication but it may introduce new...
Provided by Florida Atlantic University
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White Papers
Unchain Your Network With an Application Firewall
Dec 2008
This paper discusses the new risks facing organizations in light of the prevalence of Web-based applications and offers best practices for gaining control of applications, data and bandwidth. It...
Provided by SonicWALL
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Webcasts
SonicWALL and Gartner Discuss Next-Generation Firewall: Driving Productivity, Security & Efficiencies Webcast
Jan 2009
Network and application usage is dramatically changing the way networks are designed, managed and protected. The need for bandwidth is increasing and users are becoming more technically savvy. At...
Provided by SonicWALL
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White Papers
Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall (VA+WAF)
Jun 2008
New technology developed by WhiteHat Security and F5 Networks enables organizations to immediately mitigate discovered vulnerabilities using a web application firewall. WhiteHat's Sentinel service...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Information Supplement: Requirement 6.6 Code Reviews and Application Firewalls Clarified
Apr 2008
The intent of Requirement 6.6 is to ensure web applications exposed to the public Internet are protected against the most common types of malicious input. There is a great deal of public...
Provided by PCI Security Standards Council
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White Papers
Information Supplement: Application Reviews and Web Application Firewalls Clarified
Oct 2008
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)Requirement 6.6 provides two options that are intended to address common threats to cardholder data and ensure that input to running web...
Provided by PCI Security Standards Council
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White Papers
Why Your Firewall, VPN, and IEEE 802.11i Aren't Enough to Protect Your Network
Nov 2008
Like any network technology, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) need to be protected from security threats. Though recent developments in IEEE standards have been designed to help ensure privacy...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
ACS Technology Platform: Comparison of "Behind-the-Firewall" Vs. Hosted Learning Solutions
Jun 2008
Web-based learning, as well as online access to learning administration and reporting services, requires a high-performance, scalable, and reliable platform to meet baseline user requirements....
Provided by Affiliated Computer Services
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White Papers
Keeping emails private - why businesses need email encryption
Jan 2009
With so much at stake, what are the risks of sending unencrypted emails, what are the options for keeping emails private and what are the benefits of the MessageLabs Policy Based Encryption...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Safety in the Cloud(s): 'Vaporizing' the Web Application Firewall to Secure Cloud Computing
Jul 2009
Cloud computing was not designed for security, although organizations such as Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) are making great strides in helping...
Provided by art of defence
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Webcasts
Securing Shared Virtual Infrastructure With Virtual Firewalls
Jun 2009
Enterprises and service providers are increasingly sharing physical hosts among multiple departments and customers, requiring strong isolation between virtual machines. The new VMware VMsafe APIs...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Firewire Blocker: A Software Defense Against Firewire-Based Physical Security Attacks on Windows Systems
Aug 2009
This paper presents a software solution to Firewire-based physical security attacks on Microsoft Windows operating systems. In this first proof-of-concept, the FirewireBlocker service is running...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
Jan 2009
A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
Jan 2009
Network security is too important to fall victim to marketplace confusion and misleading claims. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
Sep 2009
Managing business rules gives you control over high volume operational decisions and delivers unprecedented agility. Based on decades of experience developing decision management applications,...
Provided by FICO
