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Intrusion Prevention System – Tipping Point

By On June 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In an age were applications are quickly moving to the web, security threats increase the risks of a breach causing economic damage and loss of reputation to businesses.

No longer is it viable to have a firewall protecting internal resources from the outside world without knowing and inspecting the legitimate traffic coming into the network, [...]

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Safeguard Against Random Password Hacks

By On February 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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A great tool I ran across to protect your server from random password attacks which I have been receiving recently from China.

Fail2ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that make repeated, unsuccessful attempts to access the server and then it updates the IPtables [...]

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