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    eWeek Labs Recommends: Key Security Resources

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    Jim Rapoza
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    June 11, 2001
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      The following sites are tried-and-true security destinations. Every IT pro should bookmark and visit these sites—often.

      www.securityfocus.com Home of the Bugtraq mailing list archive, plus a good source of security white papers

      www.sans.org Includes the SANS Institutes vulnerability list, white papers and port scan statistics from monitors spread around the Internet

      www.cert.org The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon provides one of the best resources for security advisories and best-practices information

      cve.mitre.org Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, the authoritative list of vulnerability definitions

      icat.nist.gov The National Institute of Standards and Technologys search engine for the CVE database

      www.securityportal.com Security news and commentary

      www.ntbugtraq.com A Windows-specific vulnerability Web site and mailing list

      www.linuxsecurity.com All things Linux security

      www.microsoft.com/technet/ security Microsoft Product Security Notification Service, Microsofts security vulnerability mailing list

      project.honeynet.org The Honeynet Project: Learn how to do detailed forensics after a compromise

      www.wiretrip.net/rfp/ The “skinnable” home of Rain Forest Puppy provides detailed information on exploits and has been first to list several prominent vulnerabilities

      www.insecure.org Home of the definitive port scanner nmap, plus a great list of security tools

      www.atstake.com/research/advisories/index.html Formerly Lopht advisories, this is an excellent list of advisories that often covers applications skipped by other lists

      www.2600.com Home of the venerable hacker magazine

      Jim Rapoza
      Jim Rapoza, Chief Technology Analyst, eWEEK.For nearly fifteen years, Jim Rapoza has evaluated products and technologies in almost every technology category for eWEEK. Mr Rapoza's current technology focus is on all categories of emerging information technology though he continues to focus on core technology areas that include: content management systems, portal applications, Web publishing tools and security. Mr. Rapoza has coordinated several evaluations at enterprise organizations, including USA Today and The Prudential, to measure the capability of products and services under real-world conditions and against real-world criteria. Jim Rapoza's award-winning weekly column, Tech Directions, delves into all areas of technologies and the challenges of managing and deploying technology today.
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