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Host-based filtering for Windows NT
Security Issues explains easy-to-implement--yet very effective--host-based filtering steps for NT server firewalls.

Packet filtering on Windows NT
Our Security Issues columnists show how to lock down your Windows NT servers easily with better packet filtering.

Double-crossed by proxy
Don't let your reverse proxy servers be turned into double agents working against you.

Secure IIS Web servers using templates
Security Issues columnists show how to safeguard IIS Web servers with security templates.

Stop Windows hackers
Our Security Issues columnists show how to detect the pernicious Windows NT rootkit.

Hackers' rootkit for NT
Our Security Issues columnists unveil a Windows NT rootkit...which then disappears, yet still makes mischief.

Detecting rootkits
Learn how you, the system administrator, can detect and keep rootkits off your Web servers.

At the root of rootkits
Find out what gets packed in the rootkit that a malicious hacker sneaks onto a Web server.

Spot hackers' sneak attacks
Learn how hackers attempt to circumvent your intrusion detection systems.

Catch hackers in the act
Detect Web-based attacks in real time and take immediate corrective action.

Optimizing Web server logging
Our third Security Issues column on detecting attacks explores configuring your log files to maximize monitoring capabilities.

Hackers' tricks to avoid detection
In our second column on simulating attacks, we explore some of the dirty tricks hackers use to avoid detection.

Logging Web server attacks
How better to study crime than to commit a few calculated break-ins yourself?

JSP = Java source peeking?
Java servers can have source code disclosure vulnerabilities. Here's how to put a cap on the problem.

Why you should fear baby hackers
A real-world example of how easy it is for even unskilled hackers to get control of systems.

How Web servers help attackers
Hackers can get your own Web server to invite them in. Here's how to lock down your unsecure outbound connections.

Excuse me, but your ASP is showing
Active Server Pages can give attackers the key to your kingdom. Here's how to guard the drawbridge.

SSL: A false sense of security
In their new column, Chris Prosise and Saumil Shah show how SSL can hamper security monitoring, and what you can do about it.

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