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Managing Badware and Policy Violation With Aanval and Bleeding Edge Threat Snort Rules

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Overview Badware, Instant Messaging (IM), and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) apps, are prominent issues facing those with the task of securing enterprise computing environments. The risks are plentiful, including potential loss of confidential data, Trojans, and rootkits. The focus this month will detail the effort to manage those risks on ones network using Aanval, an excellent Snort console from Remote Assessment, and Bleeding Threat Snort Rules designed to readily identify traffic of concern.

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Publisher	Information Systems Security Association	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Tools

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