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platform-independent
INFOSEC resources.
- See our Platform Specific Resources
page
for your platform of interest.
NSA Information Assurance Directorate Home Page- The US Government's National Security Agency's Information Assurance
Directorate is dedicated to providing information assurance solutions that will
keep our information systems safe from harm. Our national security depends on
it.
IAD's mission involves detecting, reporting, and responding to cyber
threats; making encryption codes to securely pass information between systems;
and embedding IA measures directly into the emerging Global Information
Grid.
Are you looking to enhance the security of your operating systems, routers,
web browsers and software applications?
If so, view the Security Configuration Guides.
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United States Government Computer Emergency Readiness Team- The United States Government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is
a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the public and
private sectors. Established in 2003 to protect the nation's Internet
infrastructure, US-CERT coordinates defense against and responses to cyber
attacks across the nation.
US-CERT is charged with protecting our nation's Internet infrastructure by
coordinating defense against and response to cyber attacks. US-CERT is
responsible for analyzing and reducing cyber threats and vulnerabilities,
disseminating cyber threat warning information, and coordinating incident
response activities.
US-CERT interacts with federal agencies, industry, the research community,
state and local governments, and others to disseminate reasoned and actionable
cyber security information to the public.
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NIST Computer Security Resource Center- The United States Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology
Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) is tasked to improve information systems
security by:
Raising awareness of IT risks, vulnerabilities and protection requirements,
particularly for new and emerging technologies;
Researching, studying, and advising agencies of IT vulnerabilities and
devising techniques for the cost-effective security and privacy of sensitive
Federal systems;
Developing standards, metrics, tests and validation programs: to promote,
measure, and validate security in systems and services to educate consumers and
to establish minimum security requirements for Federal systems.
Developing guidance to increase secure IT planning, implementation,
management and operation.
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Computer Emergency Response Team- Established in 1988, the CERT® Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is a center
of Internet security expertise, located at the Software Engineering Institute, a
federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon
University.
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SANS Institute- SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information
security training and certification in the world. It also develops, maintains,
and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents
about various aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet's
early warning system - Internet Storm Center.
The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute was established in
1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Its programs now reach
more than 165,000 security professionals, auditors, system administrators,
network administrators, chief information security officers, and CIOs who share
the lessons they are learning and jointly find solutions to the challenges they
face.
At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners in government
agencies, corporations, and universities around the world who invest hundreds of
hours each year in research and teaching to help the entire information security
community.
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Computer Security Institute (CSI)- Computer Security Institute (CSI) is the world's leading membership
organization specifically dedicated to serving and training the information,
computer and network security professional. Since 1974, CSI has been providing
education and aggressively advocating the critical importance of protecting
information assets.
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IEEE Computer Security and Privacy
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Center for Internet Security- The Center for Internet Security mission is to help organizations around the
world effectively manage the risks related to information security.
CIS provides methods and tools to improve, measure, monitor, and compare
the security status of your Internet-connected systems and appliances, plus those
of your business partners.
CIS is not tied to any proprietary product or service. It manages a
consensus process whereby members identify security threats of greatest concern,
then participate in development of practical methods to reduce the threats. This
consensus process is already in use and has proved viable in creating Internet
security benchmarks available for widespread adoption.
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Infowar.Com- Infowar.Com has been around since 1996... and many sites cannot boast that
fact!
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Network Security Library- The Secinf.net Network Security Library!
Use this site to access hundreds of articles, FAQs, white papers and books
on network security, gathered from various sources throughout the industry
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Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.- FIRST is the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.
The idea of FIRST goes back to 1989, only one year after the first CERT was
created after the infamous Internet worm. Back then incidents already were
impacting not only one closed user group or organization, but any number of
networks interconnected by the Internet.
It was clear from then on that information exchange and cooperation on
issues of mutual interest like new vulnerabilities or wide ranging attacks -
especially on core system like the DNS servers or the Internet as a critical
infrastructure itself - were the key issues for security and incident response
teams.
Since 1990, when FIRST was founded, its members have resolved an almost
continuous stream of security-related attacks and incidents including handling
thousands of security vulnerabilities affecting nearly all of the millions of
computer systems and networks throughout the world connected by the ever growing
Internet.
FIRST brings together a wide variety of security and incident response
teams including especially product security teams from the government,
commercial, and academic sectors.
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AstaLaVista.NET- With over 15,509 members the AstaLaVista.NET Security Member Portal is
the
largest security community on the net!
Don't waste your time by searching the net!
Become now an AstaLaVista member and find what you need!
All about Computer and Network Security!
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National Security Institute- Computer Security Net
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