Archive - November 2000
Defending Against DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service)
The site is down! These are haunting words for most businesses, and today’s topic: the DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack. This particularly nasty type of attack attempts to disrupt the availability of systems by overwhelming servers, saturating bandwidth or through other techniques. Your business is most likely heavily reliant upon specific systems and this article provides an overview of the DDoS attack that could potentially take these key systems down and techniques for combating the DDoS.
Security and Compliance Synergies with DLP and SIEM
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can greatly help organizations understand and control the data that is used, stored and transmitted and it is seeing increasing use in PCI-DSS compliance. Another technology, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), collects and analyzes data in real time from multiple sources including server logs, network devices, firewalls and intrusion detection systems. In this article, we will enumerate how the combination of SIEM and DLP can improve the security and compliance of a corporation. Taken together SIEM and DLP can work so that data flow within a corporation is transparent, therefore, affording more control to the corporation and less ability to misuse that information.
