A List of Important Readings


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ISS
    Secure E-business
    Network and Host-based Vulnerability Assessment
    Creating, Implementing, and Managing the Information Security Lifecycle

Enterprise Anti-Virus Software (Network Magazine)

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (Network Magazine)
    Syn Flooding (CERT advisory)
    Smurf (CERT advisory)

For more info regarding

CERT - in particular, their Advisories and trends in DOS attacks.