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Re: How to prevent zero day attacks
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler () tysdomain com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:05:35 -0600
On 5/22/2012 12:04 AM, amishra.jsr () gmail com wrote:
Hello, Traditionally all the anitvirus, IPS works using signature based technique. This doesn't help in zero day attack. Therefore, what can be done to prevent zero-day attacks?
That's kind of the point of a 0-day attack. People don't know about it and thus, can't prevent it.
You've got a few things you can do to help limit it though.1) Keep your attack surface small. If you don't need 1000 ports open, don't open those. If something does not need to be accessed on the internet (but only on your internal network), limit it.
2) Use IDS to help keep trakc of what is going on.There's of course a lot more, but I think the attack surface and ids+firewall is the most important.
HTH,
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- Re: How to prevent zero day attacks Cody Alexander (May 22)
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