SANS InfoSec Reading Room - System Administration
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Featuring 30 papers as of Jul 9, 2008
- Is Internet Explorer More Secure than FireFox?
- Larry Fortier
- October 1, 2007
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- OS and Application Fingerprinting Techniques
- Jon Mark Allen
- September 27, 2007
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- Security Implications of the Virtualized Data Center
- Alan Murphy
- June 19, 2007
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- Port Knocking: Beyond the Basics
- Dawn Isabel
- May 17, 2005
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- Linux Repository Server: Implementing and Hardening Step by Step
- Alexandre Teixeira
- May 5, 2005
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- Linux Repository Server: Implementing and Hardening Step by Step
- Alexandre Teixeira
- March 9, 2005
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- Meeting the challenges of automated patch management
- John Walther
- September 16, 2004
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- Metrics for Operational Security Control
- Richard Cambra
- August 15, 2004
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- Protecting Students in the Public School Environment
- John Decker
- July 25, 2004
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- Operating System Build Management in the Enterprise
- Duncan Beattie
- April 8, 2004
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- Options for Secure Personal Password Management
- Hugh Ranalli
- December 14, 2003
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- Role-Based Access Control: The NIST Solution
- Hazen Weber
- December 13, 2003
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- Implementing the "Just-enough Privilege" Security Model
- Tom Martzahn
- November 19, 2003
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- Backup Rotations - A Final Defense
- Stephen Lennon
- October 31, 2003
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- The Divine Right of Kings: Domain Administrators and your (In)secure Network
- Mark Austin
- October 31, 2003
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- Non-Malicious Destruction of Data
- Saffet G. Ozdemir
- October 31, 2003
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- Some of the Dangers of Connecting your AS/400 to a Network
- Michael Walsh
- October 31, 2003
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- Systems Administrators: The First Line of Defense
- Elizabeth Frank
- October 31, 2003
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- Patch DoS
- Chad Oleary
- October 31, 2003
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- Proposal for Managing System Security Patches in an Enterprise Network
- Karenda Bernal
- October 31, 2003
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- Slogging (syslog-ging) through the Mud
- Michael Sullivan
- October 31, 2003
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- Steps Toward a Secure Windows XP Stand Alone Workstation Abstract
- Patrick Grace
- October 31, 2003
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- Systems Security Management: Small Business Style
- Nathaniel Dean
- October 31, 2003
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- Security Administration Solution or Why We Implemented An Identity Management/Account Provisioning T
- Suzette Franklin
- October 31, 2003
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- Using Fport on Windows NT to Map Applications to Open Ports
- Teena J. Henson
- October 31, 2003
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- Protecting Insecure Programs
- Shawn Instenes
- October 31, 2003
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- Keeping Red Hat Linux Systems Secure with up2date
- John Mravunac
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing Internet Explorer Through Patch Management
- Ben Meader
- October 31, 2003
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- Methodologically Upgrading A Production System
- Otan Ayan
- June 27, 2003
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- Password Security in NIS Systems
- Eric Gallagher
- July 19, 2001
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