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Cornerstone Issue 36: November 9, 2001
Welcome to Issue 36 of Cornerstone, an electronic newsletter
issued periodically by Core Competence.
Cornerstone reports on a wide range of networking topics and
activities involving Core Competence. A brief abstract explains
what you will find if you choose to visit each URL.
http://seminars.internet.com/80211/fall01/agenda2.html#nets
Join Lisa Phifer at the 802.11b Wireless Conference, where she will
moderate two panels on 802.11b (in)security. First, panelists Mandy
Andress and Phil Cox will identify risks and complementary measures
available today for securing wireless nets...
http://seminars.internet.com/80211/fall01/agenda2.html#sec
Next, panelists Dorothy Stanley and Jesse Walker will explain the
significance of new security measures now under development in IEEE
802 task groups. Learn about recent advances that will help to
prevent unauthorized access, ensure data privacy, and account for
wireless net usage.
http://isp-planet.com/technology/vpn/vpncon_fall_2001.html
October; what comes to mind? Fall foliage, crisp mornings, apple cider,
candy corn, jack-o-lanterns...and VPNs? Yes, VPN news ramps up during
the fall conference season, culminating at Fall VPNcon. In this
ISP-Planet article, Lisa Phifer covers product news from VPNcon.
http://www.isp-planet.com/technology/vpn/sonicwall_eval1.html
Lisa's VPN CPE Review Series continues. Here, ISP-Planet publishes her
lab eval of SonicWALL's proposed solution: PRO-VX, SOHO2, and TELE2
Internet appliances, provisioned with the Global Management System.
http://www.isp-planet.com/technology/vpn/rapidstream_eval1.html
The next installment in Lisa's VPN CPE Review Series: a lab eval of the
solution proposed by RapidStream: the RSSA 2000 and RSSA 1000,
provisioned with RapidStream's Central Policy Management System.
Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3, to be published on November 15 and 22.
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid7_gci774127,00.html
This SearchNetworking tip, Lisa Phifer takes a look at VPN trouble
shooting from the user end, offering a diagnostic checklist for employees
trying to bring up an IPsec tunnel to the company network.
http://www.vandyke.com/solutions/secure_file_transfer/index.html
Leveraging the Internet for data delivery is simple, convenient, and
cost-effective - as long as file access, confidentiality, and integrity
can be protected. This paper, developed by Lisa Phifer for VanDyke
Software, describes how securing file transfer with Secure Shell works,
where it can be used, and the solutions offered by VanDyke products.
http://www.corecom.com/external/livesecurity/backchannels.htm
With WatchGuard's permission, CoreCom reposts Dave Piscitello's
editorial on detecting and preventing backchannels - outbound connections
that may be automatically established without your knowledge, by client
software running on PCs behind your firewall.
http://www.corecom.com/external/livesecurity/multivendorvpn.htm
With some careful planning and a good understanding of the IPsec
capabilities of the VPN security gateways involved, Dave explains how
you can incorporate a WatchGuard Firebox into a multi-vendor VPN.
http://www.corecom.com/external/livesecurity/muvpn1.htm
In this two-parter, Dave teaches WatchGuard Firebox users how to get an
IPsec Mobile User VPN up and running. Steps illustrated here include
planning, documentation, software distribution, monitoring, and
trouble-shooting.
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