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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Cybersecurity training : Educates employees regarding basic best practices to recognize attacks, avoid scams, and protect against breaches or data loss.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And then eventually, you come out with a timeline of the events of what's happened. MUSIC] VAMOSI: So there are cases where, where legitimately, an event has occurred, but after the fact it's hard to pull all the strings and find out what that event was. Instead of having to fly people out all over the place.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. Hacker was more about the pursuit of knowledge. And that pursuit of knowledge because it was harder to find things that weren't search engines. Let's analyze stuff.

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