he Web Services Interoperability organization (WSI) has developed a whole stable of standards upon which Web services commerce and communication can be executed securely. These standards are in great demand
he OpenBSD team prides itself on producing one of the most?if not the most?secure operating systems in the world. If you are concerned about keeping the sensitive data within your
ome of the grubbiest ethical quandaries in IT never quite get resolved; we make progress, we debate, we set guidelines, but burying such issues for good?with accepted industry policy?is a
ost Web hosting providers block port 3306 (the MySQL server port) at the firewall to prevent outside access. As a result, many MySQL developers and administrators can’t access and manage
an Francisco, Calif.?”Ninety-nine percent of the people want to write secure code,” said panelist Ira Winkler, at the Secure Software Forum last week, “they just don’t know how.” Winkler, Global
art 1 of this article explained IDS and examined the most popular open source IDS solutions. Part 2 demonstrates some common, practical uses for these solutions. The first example is
owadays, basic information security at any level should include an intrusion detection system (IDS) that gathers and later analyzes intrusion data. The primary goal of IDS software is monitoring hostile
icrosoft Windows allows you to define various password policy rules. Specifically, it allows you to enable the “Password must meet complexity requirements” setting using the Policy Editor. This validates user
ver the past few years, the number of Windows-based worm attacks has grown dramatically. Companies have implemented full-scale virus scanning and Windows update facilities to help stop the worm attacks.