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Active Systems Management: The Evolution of Firewalls
Overview For over twenty-five years, the security community has focused on improving security, and yet information systems remain as vulnerable as ever (perhaps more so). A perfect example of this is the code red worm which automatically exploits vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). Following a successful exploitation of a host, the worm propagates by scanning for other vulnerable hosts to infect. Nine days later, approximately 250,000 hosts were reported as infected. The unfortunate truth about the code red incident is that ALL of the intrusions should have been prevented.
| Publisher | University of Maryland | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2002 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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