New Articles of SecurityFocus this week

From: Alfred Huger (ah_at_securityfocus.com)
Date: 09/11/03

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    1. Demonstrating ROI for Penetration Testing (Part Three)
    By Marcia Wilson Sep 11, 2003
    The third article in this series focuses on defining terms related to the
    Risk Analysis process and touches on Information Asset valuation methods
    that are critical when justifying the necessity and expense of a Pen Test.
    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1730

    2. Hardening the TCP/IP stack to SYN attacks
    By Mariusz Burdach Sep 10, 2003
    This article discusses methods of hardening the TCP/IP stack of various
    operating systems to make servers more resistant to SYN flooding and SYN
    spoofing Denial of Service (DOS) attacks.
    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1729

    Alfred Huger
    Symantec Corp.

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