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Research: WAN Security

Davis, Michael | 09/30/10
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Data-centric protection and increased vigilance of provider and partner networks is the new call to arms for WAN security professionals.

As the number of connections into and out of your organization proliferates, data-centric protection and increased vigilance of provider and partner networks is the new call to arms for WAN security professionals. (R1630810)

Table of Contents

    4 Author's Bio

    5 Executive Summary

    6 Research Synopsis

    7 Where Do We Go From Here?

    8 From Network to Data

    13 The Cloud and Managed Services

    18 Don't Trust--Verify

    24 The New WAN Reality

About the Author

Tech Center: Stopping Malicious Insiders

Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits.

He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups.

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