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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Intrusion Detection and Prevention
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RFP Template for Information Security Projects
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November 10, 2009
This Request For Proposal template was created to help organizations identify and select a quality security vendor to perform professional services work. It also lists questions organizations sho…
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Building and Maintaining a Successful Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management Program
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April 2, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2008
The practice of information assurance in a university computing environment requires a well-established patch management system, balanced with a vulnerability assessment process to effectively prot…
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Network Registration System Scanner
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January 1, 2004
As of fall 2003, the University of Connecticut network consists of approximately 20,000 hosts, 11,000 of which are in the residential halls. Our commercial Internet link is about 200 Mbps, and th…
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Lessons Learned from RIT’s First Security Posture Assessment
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January 1, 2004
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is the 11th largest private university in the United States with approximately 22,500 hosts on our network. We have one of the largest computer science and…
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Integrating Vulnerability Scanning with Web Authentication
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January 1, 2004
During fall 2003, a large scale Internet worm (W32.Blaster) exploited a widely known Windows operating system vulnerability throughout academic institutions in the United States. This worm infect…
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Network Monitoring with Nagios
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April 11, 2007
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A session at the Security 2007
Nagios is a freely available open source network and host monitoring tool. This presentation will discuss using Nagios in an academic environment to monitor servers, detect network problems, and al…
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Making the Campus Web Safer, One Application at a Time
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April 11, 2007
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A session at the Security 2007
A year ago, UT Austin identified Web application security as an important initiative for developers. As part of that initiative, UT developed an application security curriculum focused on the Open …
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Sensitive Information Sweep Using Cornell's Spider
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April 11, 2007
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A session at the Security 2007
Colorado State University and the University of Colorado each chose Cornell University's Spider search utility to find sensitive information on Windows, OSX, Linux, and Solaris computers. Work…
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Unauthenticated Authentication: Null Bytes and the Affect on Web-based
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January 1, 2006
This paper describes a vulnerability that may affect web-based applications that insecurely implement LDAP simple binds for the authentication of users. Web-based applications that fail to properly…
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A Tale of Two Tracks: Social Engineering Your Students and Detecting Bots with DNS
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January 1, 2006
High-speed connections and lots of personal computers make campus networks target-rich environments for malware and botnet recruitment. Without a policy enforcement tool to manage student connect…

















