Recovering From a Failed Security Audit - A Case Study

In the spring of 2001 my pride was shattered when an independent auditor revealed a number of basic security problems with the network for which I am the Senior Network Administrator including passwords and SNMP services with vendor default public and private strings. Further internal...

By

Wayne Fielder

June 19, 2003

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