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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Firewalls
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Are You Paying Attention to the Character Behind the (Layer 7) Curtain?
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January 12, 2011
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011
Many bad guys revised their attack methodology during 2010. Roughly 80% of attacks are now initiated through the web application layer 7 vulnerabilities, yet most higher ed Institutions allocate le…
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Securing Campus Web Applications with Vulnerability Scanning and Web Application Firewalls
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November 5, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
Web application firewalls (WAFs) and penetration testing are excellent ways to secure your environment while meeting PCI-DSS requirements. This session will focus on our experience with each tool, …
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Web Application Firewalls at SCSU: Why and How
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April 21, 2009
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A session at the Security 2009
Several years ago most people didn't have any idea what a web application firewall (WAF) was or why one might be needed. We will talk about the events that brought WAFs off St. Cloud State Uni…
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Border Patrol: Access Denied!
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October 25, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
The University of Notre Dame recently changed its network border policy to deny most unsolicited network traffic from the Internet. A small set of services like the Web, secure shell, and VPN are a…
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Force10 Networks - Is Open Source Key to High-Speed Security?
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April 11, 2007
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A session at the Security 2007
As network speed has increased over the past three years, security has failed to keep pace. Traditional firewalls and intrusion protection systems can't handle proprietary rule sets or increas…
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ForeScout Technologies and Queens College/CUNY - Access Security in a De-Parameterized World
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April 11, 2007
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A session at the Security 2007
Campuses continue to face a unique set of challenges in securing networks, defending against hackers and self-propagating malware, managing "unmanaged" devices, and ensuring business cont…
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IT Security in Higher Education: A Sea Change
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October 11, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
ECAR data from 2003 and 2005 make it possible to compare the state of IT security over a critical two-year period. The findings from this analysis are striking, revealing an organizational, technol…
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Safeguarding the Tower: IT Security in Higher Education 2006
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October 11, 2006
Presentation at EDUCAUSE 2006, October 9-12, 2006, Dallas, Texas. This presentation summarizes the findings of the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research 2006 study of information technology s…
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Building a Campus DShield
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April 11, 2006
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A session at the Security 2006
The DShield project is a component of the Internet Storm Center: host systems submit copies of their firewall logs to a central facility database. This presentation describes how to create a local …
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Security Technology Correlation: Next-Generation Architecture for Defending Campus Networks Against Blended Threats
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April 12, 2006
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A session at the Security 2006
Although campus networks today deploy multiple security technologies, they are proving to be inadequate when dealing with next-generation blended threats. In this presentation, we will explore how …

















