The foundation of Germany’s cybersecurity architecture dates back to 1986. It was in this year that the organization preceding the “Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik” (Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, official translation), known as the “Zentralstelle für das Chiffrierwesen” (Central Office for Encryption, ZfCh, own translation), set up a working party to deal […]
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SANS Instructors have built more than 150 open source tools that support your work and help you implement better security. Search the lists on the following pages for the free tools that will help you get the job done.
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Businesses are undergoing a digital transformation demanding rapid migration to the cloud and expanded adoption of web, mobile, and social platforms. These initiatives, which expand organizations’ digital presence far across the internet, were already exposing the limitations of network security controls like firewalls, DLP, and network monitoring. According to the Verizon Data Breach report, external-facing […]
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This checklist is from the SCORE Checklist Project. This checklist should be used to audit a firewall. This checklist does not provide vendor specific security considerations but rather attempts to provide a generic listing of security considerations to be used when auditing a firewall.
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an independent inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the global financial system against money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The FATF Recommendations are recognised as the global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) standard.
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