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Security Audit Aims To Outfox Hackers
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:56:04 -0500
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000602S0002 By Rutrell Yasin, InternetWeek Jun 2, 2000 (9:12 AM) In the wake of highly publicized security breaches and denial-of-service attacks, the media conglomerate Fox Entertainment Group wanted to know how vulnerable it might be, so it conducted a vulnerability assessment. Fox (stock: FOX) is indicative of many companies that have turned to outside consultancies to determine their level of security risk. In its case, Fox turned to E-Certify, a provider of managed security and integration services. Companies such as E-Certify and Arthur Andersen's security consulting practices are similar to "back-seat drivers," said Jeff Uslan, director of information protection at Fox, New York. "We use them to validate concerns or [to point out issues] we've overlooked," Uslan said. As it turned out, it was worth the effort. E-Certify's assessment of Fox's voice and data network revealed that it needed to gain control over and better manage IP addresses. "We have a massive broadcast domain and there's a lack of policy [with regard to managing multiclass IP addresses]," said Fritz Logan, executive director of network operations at Fox. However, as the media company replaces a five-year-old switching network with Cisco (stock: CSCO) gear, IT departments will be able to consolidate IP addresses to solve that problem, Logan said. [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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