Network Security Intro
This document starts with "What is a network" and goes on to describe the OSI model, risk management, denial of service, authorization, types of firewalls, and more.
Find the HOWTO or step-by-step guide that you need right here.
This document starts with "What is a network" and goes on to describe the OSI model, risk management, denial of service, authorization, types of firewalls, and more.
This documentations, part 1 of a series of articles, will help you field yourself against the imminent dangers that you will have to face when you decide to open up your business to the anarchy of the Internet. The article goes in depth on the data a
This document, written by Dave Dittrich, provides a great foundation for performing a postmortem on your box once it's been rooted.
VTun provides an easy and simpler way to create virtual tunnels between TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption. It supports IP, PPP, SLIP, Ethernet and other tunnel types.
Here's a really good article by Steve Bellovin and others from CERT that attempt to provide "risk management" instead of "risk avoidance"
This is a document discusses an interesting perspective on network security and how to develop a sound security strategy.