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Best Practices in Network Security

March 20, 2000


Resources
The following books and Web sites can provide insight into the development of sound security policies and procedures.

Books
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin. Addison-Wesley, June 1994

Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, Win Treese and Larry Stewart. Addison-Wesley, 1998

Web Security Sourcebook, Aviel Rubin, Daniel Geer and Marcus Ranum. Wiley Computer Publishing, 1997

Information Warfare and Security, Dorothy Denning. Addison-Wesley, 1999

+Information Security: Policies and Procedures: A Practitioner's Reference, Thomas R. Peltier. CRC Press, Auerbach Publications, December 1998

The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program, Gerald Kovacich. Butterworth-Heinemann, May 1998

Web Sites
> The SANS Institute, www.sans.org: Security policies, course notes

The Computer Security Institute (CSI), www.gocsi.com: Various papers and editorials about security practices and products

Project COAST (Computer Operations, Audit and Security Technology), Purdue University, www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/: Software tools, information archives, research projects

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