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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 … Definition continues below.

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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. TOPICS: Hackers \| IIS \| Internet Security \| Intrusion Detection Systems \| Network Forensics \| Security Audits \| Virus Detection Software

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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