Resources from Network Security for Startups @ General Assembly July 11th, 2011 - Bill Totman Zscaler http://www.zscaler.com - free demo - free trial - documentation http://research.zscaler.com - A.K.A. Scared Straight McAfee Threat Intelligence http://www.mcafee.com/us/mcafee-labs/threat-intelligence.aspx Symantec Threat Explorer http://us.norton.com/security_response/threatexplorer/index.jsp http://www.symantec.com/business/threatreport/build.jsp Barracuda Networks http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ http://blog.barracuda.com/pmblog/index.php/2011/04/12/waf-importance/ http://www.barracudalabs.com/blog.html Palo Alto Networks http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/index.php WhiteHat Security https://www.whitehatsec.com/ - Their CEO's blog (Jeremiah Grossman): http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/ Spam Blacklists http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check Monoculture as a Threat https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/14326-The-Microsoft-Monoculture-as-a-Threat-to-National-Security.html OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page Sophos http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/security-trends/security-threat-report-2011.aspx SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, and Security) http://isc.sans.org/ An Interesting Look at an early Virus http://computerarcheology.com/stoned/stoned.html - It shows how hardware can be part of the problem. - Check out how the virus used interupts that are/were changeable in RAM Some interesting Software http://www.truecrypt.org/ http://keepass.info/ http://www.diceware.com/ - Not so much a piece of software, but a way of generating long passwords (passphrases).