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Monitoring Your Network

Overview This PowerPoint presentation explains how multiple security tools can be used to monitor a computer network. Covered tools include: WS_Ping_ProPack, XploiterStat Lite, Windows Event Viewer, Sophos Anti-Virus for NT, Sophos Anti-Virus ADMIN Tool, Software Firewalls, eTrust Intrusion Detection (Sessionwall), 3Com Network Supervisor, GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner, and Network Probe.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of Oxford	File Format	PowerPoint
Date Published	June 2003	Downloads	15
Format	Presentations
Topics	Best Practices, Security Tools

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