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Welcome to Top Layer's Network Security & Internet Cyber Security Resource Center
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Technical Resources
Network Security Glossaries

Welcome to Top Layer's Network Security & Internet Cyber Security Resource Center

This resource center has been designed to bring you valuable security information to help you make educated choices about securing your network. We've included links to security focused sites and portals, technical papers, training, glossaries and more.

Information Security Web Sites

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
http://www.cert.org/ - CERT is located at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. They study internet security vulnerabilities, research long-term changes in networked systems, and develop information and training to help users improve security.

AusCERT (Australia)
http://www.auscert.org.au/ - AusCERT is the national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Australia and a leading CERT in the Asia/Pacific region.

CC/CNCERT (China)
http://www.cert.org.cn/ - CNCERT/CC is a National level CERT organization, which is responsible for the coordination of activities among all Computer Emergency Response Teams within China Concerning incidents on national public networks.

KRCERT (Korea)
http://www.certcc.or.kr/ - KrCERT is the Korean International Security Center.

SingCERT (Singapore)
http://www.singcert.org.sg/ - The Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) is a one-stop centre for security incident response in Singapore. It was set up to facilitate the detection, resolution and prevention of security related incidents on the Internet.

Computer Security Institute (CSI)
http://www.gocsi.com/ - CSI addresses the issue of information security awareness in conferences and through focused peer groups. They also offer an awareness newsletter and a training video specifically targeted to end users.

The Encyclopedia of Computer Security
http://www.itsecurity.com/ - The latest In-depth product reviews, buyer’s guides, product comparisons, news, market analysis, whitepapers, and other information on IT security.

Incidents.org
http://www.incidents.org/ - Provides daily stormcasts. Stormcasts are daily 5-10 minute threat updates.

The Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/ - The mission of the IETF is make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet.

Internet Security Alliance
http://www.isalliance.org/ - The Internet Security Alliance (ISAlliance) provides a forum for information sharing and thought leadership on information security issues.

Information Systems Audit and Control Association
http://www.isaca.org/ - ISACA is a pace-setting global organization for information governance, control, security and audit professionals. Its IS auditing and IS control standards are followed by practitioners worldwide.

Information Systems Security Organization
http://www.issa.org/ - The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members.

Information Technology Association of America
http://www.itaa.org/ - The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) is the premier IT and electronics industry.

MIS Training Institute
http://www.misti.com/ - MIS Training Institute is the international leader in audit and information security training, with offices in the USA, UK, and Asia.

Rootprompt.org
http://www.rootprompt.org/ - Unix and Linux information web site.

The SANS Institute Online
http://www.sans.org/ - Computer security training, network, and resources. Their computer security courses are developed by industry leaders in numerous fields including network security, forensics, audit, security leadership, and application security.

SANS/FBI Top Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities
http://www.sans.org/top20/ - Seven years ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at the FBI released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations relied on that list, and on the expanded Top-20 lists that followed in succeeding years, to prioritize their efforts so they could close the most dangerous holes first.

SecurityFocus
http://www.securityfocus.com/ - SecurityFocus is designed to facilitate discussion on computer security related topics, create computer security awareness, and to provide the Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of computer security knowledge and resources to the public. It also hosts the BUGTRAQ mailing list.

Internet Industry Association (Australia)
http://www.iia.net.au/ - The Internet Industry Association is Australia's national Internet industry organization. The IIA provides policy input to government and advocacy on a range of business and regulatory issues, to promote laws and initiatives which enhance access, equity, reliability and growth of the medium within Australia.

@Police (Japan)
http://www.cyberpolice.go.jp./english - @police is an Internet Security Portal Site, whose purpose is to prevent high-tech crimes and cyber terrorism, and keep them from spreading, by quickly providing information gathered by the police on information security to Internet users, and increasing security awareness.

Government/Homeland Security Web Sites

InfraGard/FBI
http://www.infragard.net/ - InfraGard is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide range of members. InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States.

National Information Assurance Partnership
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/niap.cfm - The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is the Nation’s cryptologic organization. Their core missions are to protect U.S. national security systems and to produce foreign signals intelligence information.

U.S. Department of Justice/Cybercrime
http://www.cybercrime.gov/ - This web site (from the U.S. Dept. of Justice) provides information on computer crime and intellectual property issues.

White House Homeland Security
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland - This web site (form the U.S. White House) provides information on Homeland Security issues.

Technical Resources

MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
http://www.mrtg.org/ - This web site will help you if you have a router and want to know what it does all day long. It will monitor SNMP network devices and draw pretty pictures showing how much traffic has passed through each interface.

NTOP - Network
http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html - ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. Ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well.

Ethereal Packet Sniffer
http://www.ethereal.com/ - Ethereal provides powerful multi-platform analysis. It is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education.

Network Security Portals
http://www.infosyssec.com/ - Internet security and information security portal.
http://www.searchsecurity.com/ - Covers current security topics.
http://www.securitynewsportal.com/ - Security news portal is an hourly updated security news portal with a focus on virus internet security and information system security news.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/ - The community’s center for security.

Network Security Glossaries

TechTarget's Network Security Glossary
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definitionsCategory/0,289915,sid9_tax1683,00.html - Security Management definitions.

TechWeb Encyclopedia
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/ - TechEncyclopedia from TechWeb.

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