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Network Forensics

ALSO CALLED: Cyberforensics, Security Forensics, Digital Forensics, Forensic Analysis, and Forensics
DEFINITION: Network forensics is the capture, recording, and analysis of network events in order to discover the source of security attacks or other problem incidents. (The term, attributed to firewall expert Marcus Ranum, is borrowed from the legal and criminology fields where forensics pertains to the  … 
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The Need for Effective Event Management
sponsored by GFI Software Ltd.
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 22 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
SUMMARY: This paper examines various corporate needs and provides information on how GFI EventsManager can help corporations achieve important goals.

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Web Attacks and How to Defeat Them
sponsored by thawte Inc.
WEBCAST:   Posted: 15 Sep 2005 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY: In this second Web Security School webcast, Mike Cobb, Managing Director of Cobweb Applications Ltd., takes an in-depth look at how Web sites are attacked and what you can do to reduce the likelihood of a successful attack.

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NETWORK FORENSICS DEFINITION (continued): …  investigation of crimes.) According to Simson Garfinkel, author of several books on security, network forensics systems can be one of two kinds:
  • "Catch-it-as-you-can" systems, in which all packets passing through a certain traffic point are captured and written to storage with analysis being done subsequently in batch mode. This approach requires large amounts of storage, usually involving a RAID system.
  • "Stop, look and listen" systems, … 
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