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Sans White Papers

All of these papers are being mirrored from the Sans.org web site. They provide useful background information and supplemental reading for the course. 

IUP COMPUTER SCIENCE - CYBERSECURITY TRACK WHITE PAPERS LIST
Category Title Author Date Source
Attacking the Hackers Defenders or Digilantes? Christopher Loomis December 14, 1998 SANS
Case Studies Information Security Implementation for a Local Government Richard Ginski June 22, 2001 SANS
Case Studies Search Engines: The Ignored Threat Paul Heely February 5, 2001 SANS
Case Studies Secure Password Storage Shelby Reeves August 14, 2001 SANS
Country-Specific Issues Computer Network Defense at the National Level Michael Tompkins August 14, 2001 SANS
Digital Certificates Security Alert: Fraudulent Digital Certificates Ferdinand Gomes June 7, 2001 SANS
Disaster Recovery Centralized Backups Michael J. Gallagher August 11, 2001 SANS
Disaster Recovery The Oversight of Physical Security and Contingency Planning Andy Krupa August 21, 2001 SANS
DNS Issues Has Your Domain Been Hijacked Lately? Michael Patrick February 15, 2001 SANS
E-Commerce Inspection Grade Card for Conducting E-Commerce Andrew McAllister August 27, 2001 SANS
E-Commerce Visa Security Standards Nathan Tisdale May 16, 2001 SANS
E-Mail Issues Hotmail: Why Free Email Might Not Be Such a Hot Idea Michael Barrett September 12, 2001 SANS
Firewalls - Perimeter Defense Achieving Defense-in-Depth with Internal Firewalls Steve Bridge August 15, 2001 SANS
Firewalls - Perimeter Defense Proxies and Packet Filters in Plain English Scott Algatt August 16, 2001 SANS
Hackers Identity Theft Made Easy Roy Reyes July 25, 2001 SANS
Hackers It Has Worked All These Years,  Why Change It? William D. Pool February 26, 2001 SANS
Hackers When Cyber Hacktivism Meets Cyberterrorism Larisa Paul February 19, 2001 SANS
Home and Small Office Building a Secure Home Network Kim Thomas July 26, 2001 SANS
Home and Small Office Layers of Defense for the Small Office and Home Network Derek Krein July 24, 2001 SANS
Home and Small Office Maximum Security in Small Business Cody Ray May 16, 2001 SANS
Incident Handling - Forensics Adventures in Computer Forensics Diana J. Michaud EWA, IIT September 4, 2001 SANS
Incident Handling - Forensics Learning from what Intruders Leave Behind John R. Dysart December 29, 2000 SANS
Incident Handling - Forensics Reporting Unauthorized Intrusions: A "How To" Guide Melton J. Roland July 26, 2001 SANS
Incident Handling - Forensics Secure File Deletion, Fact or Fiction? John R. Mallery July 16, 2001 SANS
Information Warfare Cyber Warfare Ernest Krutzsch December 13, 2000 SANS
Information Warfare Information Warfare:  Are you battlefield ready? Phillip A. Conrad February 13, 2001 SANS
Information Warfare InfraGard: A Neighborhood Cyber-crime Watch Richard S. Scheuch April 25, 2001 SANS
Information Warfare Misbehavior in the Face of the Enemy Beau Beeson November 18, 2000 SANS
Information Warfare Role of Perception in Information Warfare Drew Brunson July 16, 2000 SANS
Information Warfare What Does a Computer Security Breach Really Cost? Anita D'Amico September 7, 2000 SANS
Intrusion Detection Selecting an Intrusion Detection System Kathleen Buonocore August 19, 2001 SANS
Intrusion Detection The Use of Honeypots and Packet Sniffers for Intrusion Detection Michael Sink April 15, 2001 SANS
Malicious Code Windows Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability and the Code Red Worm Jeremy Baca September 10, 2001 SANS
PDAs PDAs in the Corporate Environment Dave Croxton September 5, 2001 SANS
Security Basics Information Security: Handling Compromises Craig L. Bowser August 15, 2001 SANS
Security Basics OK, So I Need Security. Where Do I Start? Lyde Andrews August 28, 2001 SANS
Security Basics Security from Scratch … How to Achieve It Alan Davies September 4, 2001 SANS
Security Policy Issues Creating Security Policies – Lessons Learned Mark Worthington May 4, 2001 SANS
Security Policy Issues Developing Effective Information Systems Security Policies R. Daniel Lee September 10, 2001 SANS
Security Policy Issues Post Napster: Peer-to-Peer Revisited Sean Mays February 20, 2001 SANS
Security Policy Issues Security Policy for Higher Educational Institutions Steven M. Helwig December 15, 2000 SANS
Security Policy Issues Sun Tzu and the Art of (Cyber) War: Ancient Advice for Developing an Information Security Program Matthew K. Miller April 2, 2001 SANS
Security Policy Issues The Clark-Wilson Security Model Sonya Q. Blake May 17, 2000 SANS
Systems Administration Keep Current With Little Time Robert Taylor September 19, 2001 SANS
Telecommuting Mitigating Teleworking Risks Gordon Jenkins August 28, 2001 SANS
Threats and Vulnerabilites Electromagnetic Attack: Is Your Infrastructure and Data at Risk? Michael B. Hayden August 10, 2001 SANS
Threats and Vulnerabilites Unicode Vulnerability – How & Why? Andrew Brannan August 7, 2001 SANS
Web Servers Security Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Popular Web Servers Brad Bell August 19, 2001 SANS
Wireless Access Wireless Networks: Panacea or the Next Hacker’s Playground? Lee Elmendorf August 15, 2001 SANS
Work Monitoring Investigating an Internal Case of Internet Abuse Mal Wright September 6, 2001 SANS

 

 

 

NSF-Grant-01-11:Cybersecurity Education and Research Center for Western Pennsylvania/Ohio/WV-Federal CyberService Training and Education.   P.I.  Dr. William Oblitey.  Co-PI's:  Dr. Dennis Giever  dgiever@iup.edu ; Dr. Mary Micco micco@iup.edu.