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Snort Rule Writing for the IT Professional: Part 3

Welcome back to my continuing series of articles on Snort rule writing. My first couple of installments in this series addressed some very simple rules

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Software Patent Law: EU, New Zealand, and the US compared

1. Introduction A patent is defined as an exclusive right or rights provided by a government to an inventor for a certain period of time

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Snort Rule Writing for the IT Professional: Part 2

Welcome back to my series on Snort rule writing. In my first installment, we covered the basic syntax of a simple rule. We established the

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BYOD – A Prequel

History, wrote Norman Cousins, is a vast early warning system. When faced with a security difficulty, it can help us to reach back and to

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Snort Rule Writing for the IT Professional

Snort–the open source intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) system—for over a decade now has proven its value and efficacy and is ranked among the best

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Differences between the privacy laws in the EU and the US

Introduction Everything we do in the Internet leaves digital fingerprints. Therefore, it is only logical that many web users are worried about the issue of

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IT Continuity Planning

Today most organizations have committed resources, developed policies, procedures, and tools, and set their organization and IT infrastructure to maintain their critical business process (Business

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How to Deal with Conflict: Good Cooperation in an IT Company

Agenda: Introduction Company success vs. cooperation inside the company Forms of conflict Reasons for bad cooperation a) Mentality depending on the positions b) Understanding of

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The Most Common Problems in the Implementation of Agile Methodologies in Companies, Part 2

Previously, we took a major problem with which organizations are faced in the implementation of Agile methodologies in companies. It was where the lack of

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Computer Incident Response Planning

See the McGraw Hill excerpt: Computer Incident Response Planning here:   Author bio: N.K. McCarthy has more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector,

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Incident Response Planning

Boring topic? Maybe. But if you believe what Gartner has to say: “Through 2016, 75% of CISO’s who experience publicly disclosed security breaches, and lack

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Chapter 8 – UEFI and the TPM: Building a foundation for platform trust

Traditional boot processes cannot stop sophisticated attacks instantiated before operating system load. Consequently, we need a method to ensure that when the operating system (OS)

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Playing by the Rules: Performing Firewall Audits

Anyone who has ever managed a firewall will know that all too often it’s a one way street. From the moment the device is plugged

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Chapter 6 – End-user Device Security

This is Chapter 6 in Tom Olzak‘s book, “Enterprise Security: A practitioner’s guide.” Chapter 5 is available here: VLAN Network Segmentation and Security- Chapter 5

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VLAN Network Segmentation and Security- Chapter 5

This is Chapter 5 in Tom Olzak‘s book, “Enterprise Security: A practitioner’s guide.” Chapter 4 is available here:Attack Surface Reduction – Chapter 4 Chapter 3

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InfoSec Book Excerpt: Security Metrics – Chapter 17

We like to read the latest and greatest security books, andsometimes the author and/or publisher is generous enough to share an extended with us –

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Attack Surface Reduction – Chapter 4

This is Chapter 4 in Tom Olzak‘s book, “Enterprise Security: A practitioner’s guide.” Chapter 3 is available here: Building the Foundation: Architecture Design – Chapter 3

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The Compliance Shell Game

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare would probably turn over in his

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Top 10 Tips for Securely Managing Your Employee’s BYOD

Overview: The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon is expanding at an incredible rate. It is something that affects every business, from the smallest to

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Building the Foundation: Architecture Design – Chapter 3

In this chapter, we define the various types of enterprise architectures, how to integrate them into strategic and tactical business objectives, and how to build

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