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5 Steps to Building and Operating an Effective Security Operations Center (SOC)
By Joseph Muniz
Dec 21, 2015
Joseph Muniz, co-author of Security Operations Center: Building, Operating, and Maintaining Your SOC, provides a high-level overview of the steps involved in creating a security operations center to protect your organization's valuable data assets.
An Overview of Computer Security
By Matt Bishop
Jan 3, 2005
Cisco NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Unified Fabric
By Ron Fuller, David Jansen, Matthew McPherson
Apr 26, 2013
This chapter shows the basic Nexus 5x00 and Nexus 7000 configurations necessary to provide a Unified access method for LAN data traffic and SAN storage traffic.
Developing Network Security Strategies
By Priscilla Oppenheimer
Oct 4, 2010
To help you handle the difficulties inherent in designing network security for complex networks, this chapter teaches a systematic, top-down approach that focuses on planning and policy development before the selection of security products.
Information Flow
By Matt Bishop
Jan 3, 2005
Information Security Principles of Success
By Jim Breithaupt, Mark S. Merkow
Jul 4, 2014
This chapter introduces these key information security principles and concepts, showing how the best security specialists combine their practical knowledge of computers and networks with general theories about security, technology, and human nature.
IPv6 Internet Security for Your Network
By Eric Vyncke, Scott Hogg
Jun 4, 2009
This chapter covers how to secure your network when it is connected to the IPv6 Internet.
Network Security First-Step: Firewalls
By Donald Stoddard, Thomas M. Thomas
Feb 8, 2012
This chapter dissects a firewall’s duties to understand what makes a firewall operate and how it does its job.
Open Source Tools for Security Testing
By Michael Kelly
Sep 16, 2005
Michael Kelly reports on handy security uses for four open source tools: WebGoat, Firefox Web Developer, WebScarab, and Ethereal. By combining the tools in easy ways, testers can track down and close the gaping security holes that are often left in applications.
Overview of Security Operations Center Technologies
By Joseph Muniz, Nadhem AlFardan, Gary McIntyre
Dec 15, 2015
This chapter from Security Operations Center: Building, Operating, and Maintaining your SOC focuses on the technology and services associated with most modern SOC environments, including an overview of best practices for data collection, how data is processed so that it can be used for security analysis, vulnerability management, and some operation recommendations.
Secure By Design? Techniques and Frameworks You Need to Know for Secure Application Development
By Randy Nash
Dec 19, 2012
What do you know about developing secure robust software? Randy Nash discusses several available techniques and frameworks for secure application development.
Securing Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) with Cisco TrustSec (CTS)
By Ron Fuller
Apr 25, 2013
Ron Fuller shows just how easy it is to take advantage of MACSEC and AES-128 bit encryption on your Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches.
Software [In]security: A Software Security Framework: Working Towards a Realistic Maturity Model
By Gary McGraw, Brian Chess
Oct 15, 2008
Gary McGraw and Brian Chess introduce a software security framework (SSF) to help understand and plan a software security initiative.
Software [In]security: Attack Categories and History Prediction
By Gary McGraw
Aug 25, 2009
Software security expert Gary McGraw describes how to divide attacks into four categories — and predict the attacks of tomorrow.
Software [In]security: Balancing All the Breaking with some Building
By Gary McGraw
Aug 30, 2011
Security expert Gary McGraw argues that the software security industry is favoring offense at the expense of defense, and that more proactive defense is needed.
Software [In]security: BSIMM Begin
By Gary McGraw, Sammy Migues
Sep 24, 2009
Gary McGraw introduces BSIMM Begin, a Web-based study focused on 40 of the 110 activities covered in the full Building Security In Maturity Model.
Software [In]security: BSIMM Europe
By Gary McGraw, David Harper, Matias Madou, Florence Mottay
Nov 10, 2009
Security expert Gary McGraw and team introduce BSIMM Europe and compare some of its initial results to the original BSIMM data.
Software [In]security: BSIMM versus SAFECode and Other Kaiju Cinema
By Gary McGraw, Sammy Migues
Dec 26, 2011
Gary McGraw and Sammy Migues clarify the intended use of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) and compare it to the SAFECode Practices methodology.
Software [In]security: BSIMM2
By Gary McGraw, Brian Chess, Sammy Migues, Elizabeth Nichols
May 12, 2010
Gary McGraw and colleagues discuss the latest iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model, BSIMM2.
Software [In]security: BSIMM3
By Gary McGraw, Brian Chess, Sammy Migues
Sep 27, 2011
BSIMM3 is the third iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) project, a tool used as a measuring stick for software security initiatives in the corporate world. Gary McGraw describes the BSIMM3 along with Brian Chess and Sammy Migues.

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