New Articles of SecurityFocus this week

From: Alfred Huger (ah@securityfocus.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 12:11:49 EDT


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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