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Security Guide for Wireless Communications

June 30, 2010

The next time you pick up that car phone to conduct last-minute business on the way to the airport, take a second to consider whether it would matter if your conversation were overheard by an AT&T executive, or some other third party. Unless both parties are using encryption or...

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application

Guiding Principles for Software Security

June 29, 2010

Behind every attack & security problem is – bad software A major concern is that security professionals are often un-aware the problem is – bad software Encrypt your data lines? The riskiest category of software today is Internet-enabled apps “Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging...

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Principles of Software Security

June 29, 2010

Secure the weakest link Low-hanging fruit is picked first, I.e. Attack end points, not encrypted links Risk analysis ID’s the weakest link Apportion resources according to risk Practice defense in depth One layer is never enough Overlapping & redundant    Fail securely Failure is unavoidable Allow least privilege Only...

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Assurance of trustworthiness

June 29, 2010

It’s all a “confidence” game. Providing adequate confidence that … … Data will not be altered or misused. … Only authorized access is allowed. … Customers’ wishes are being honored. Recent surveys of online consumers 70% said privacy was important to them, but only 40% read privacy statements 53%...

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Loose Unix Technical Security Notes

June 22, 2010

When you start talking about lots of bytes, you get into prefixes like kilo, mega and giga, as in kilobyte, megabyte and gigabyte (also shortened to K, M and G, as in Kbytes, Mbytes and Gbytes or KB, MB and GB). The following table shows the multipliers: Basic UNIX...

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FIPS 196

June 9, 2010

Entity authentication using public key cryptography Extends and clarifies ISO 9798 entity authentication standard Signed challenge/response protocol: Server sends server nonce SN Client generates client nonce CN Client signs SN and CN and returns to server Server verifies signature on the data Mutual authentication uses a three-pass protocol Server...

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Basic Windows Incident response tools

June 8, 2010

  Tool Use Netstat.exe Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections. Arp.exe Displays and modifies the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by address resolution protocol (ARP). Net.exe Net used with [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |   HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP...

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security

Logfile Auditing Spectrum

June 7, 2010

Things to consider: Full Administrative Audit Trail All management operations logged Full User Audit Trail All session activity (login, logout, timeout) All network flows (not just web) All System Events Support for External Syslog Servers https://www.bestitdocuments.com/Samples

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CIRT and other Incident sources of information

June 6, 2010

Audit Evidence Requirement. IS Auditing Guideline. Information Systems Audit and Control Computer Security Incident Handling: Step-by-Step. System Administration Networking and Security (SANS) Institute Publications. Computer Security Incident Response Policy. The Center for Information Technology. Detecting Signs of Intrusion. CERT Coordination Center. Carnegie Mellon Software Prepare to respond to intrusions....

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Radious Authentication

June 5, 2010

Remote authentication for user services Provides an authentication server for one or more clients VPN, Wreless or legacy (dial-in hosts) Client communicates with RADIUS server via encrypted communications using a shared secret key Radius Protocol: Client forwards user access request to RADIUS server Server replies with Reject access Allow...

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security

Data Archiving Landscape Today

June 4, 2010

Databases Structured data Application specific Performance driven Limited solutions available       Email Out of control Semi-structured data Well-understood applications       Distributed files Unstructured data Content searchable (documents) Non-content searchable (media) SRM/HSM type solutions Emerging data indexing solutions       Mainframe files Semi-structured data HSM solutions Many products...

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Why Backups alone are not enough

June 3, 2010

Poor policy management No Standards or procedures No indexing or search capabilities Poor segmentation Data is “consolidated” on media haphazardly according to source time and place rather than according to policy Data sharing the same media cannot be truly expired Retrieval requests will bring back unrelated data Unworkable as...

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projects

Powerpoints – Project Training Slides

June 2, 2010

Project Training PowerPoints Project_Training.zip https://www.bestitdocuments.com/Samples

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business

Sample – TGIS – Scope of Work

June 2, 2010

System Planning, Design and Implementation Route Design Analysis and Seasonal Field Activity Support Software Development GIS System Automation Hardcopy and Digital Product Development Data Quality Assurance and Reporting Documentation and Standards Requirements gathering continues (will continue throughout the project) Engineering data (mostly in-house) Route design and seasonal field activity...

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Sample Visio – What is a File System?

June 1, 2010

The software used to organize and manage the data stored on disk drives. In addition to storing the data contained in files, a file system also stores and manages important information about the files and about the file system itself. Modern File Systems UFS:  The archetypal Unix file system...

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security

Public-key-based Authentication

June 1, 2010

Simple PKC-based challenge/response protocol Server sends challenge Client signs challenge and returns it Server verifies clients signature on the challenge Vulnerable to chosen-protocol attacks Server can have client sign anything Algorithm-specific attacks (eg RSA signature/encryption duality) https://www.bestitdocuments.com/Samples

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