[376] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Network Security [off-topic]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David B. Smith)
Wed Nov 8 21:09:00 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:40:14 -0500
To: ids@uow.edu.au
From: dbs@mitre.org (David B. Smith)
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
As Robin has indicated below, the firewalls mailing list is an excellent
resource for this type of information.
Firewalls is a fairly prolific mailing list, and one might want to consider
subscribing to "firewalls-digest" in order to decrease the volume of email,
and still retain all the requisite detail.
The Cheswick and Bellovin book is a classic as Robin alludes to, and a
complementary text is the new O'Reilly book "Building Internet Firewalls"
by Brent Chapman and Elizabeth Zwicky. Brent and Elizabeth take a nuts and
bolts approach to implementing many of the concepts described in the C & B
textbook.
Both are required reading for INFOSEC specialists, and highlight an
extensive list of security weaknesses / vulnerabilities.
Hope this helps out.
Dave
>At 10:14 AM 11/6/95 NZDT, Jeff Law wrote:
>>So I am interested in hearing of anything that could be used to automate
>>monitoring of systems, and anything else regarding security of systems.
>
>This is off-topic, so followups should be off-list. In case any other
>readers are in the same predicament, one more and more common as firms move
>toward network access, I recommend subscribing to both the Firewalls and
>Academic Firewalls mail list. Discussions there revolve around network
>security, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities. To subscribe to
>Firewalls, send an email to majordomo@GreatCircle.com containing in the
>body: subscribe firewalls. For Academic Firewalls, send an email to
>majordomo@net.tamu.edu containing in the body: subscribe academic-firewalls.
>
>The "bible" for this topic, required reading for anyone pretending to
>maintain network security, is "Firewalls and Internet Security" by Cheswick
>and Bellovin, Addison-Wesley (1994). In addition to containing invaluable
>technical information, this book has pointers to sites from which security
>tools may be downloaded.
>--
>Robin Felix; felix@delfin.com; felix@nosc.mil
>619-291-2194(work), 619-291-5852(fax), 619-991-5081(alt)
>http://www.delfinsd.delfin.com/
Dave Smith
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