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10 Oct 2005
#15195
Taking Advantage of the Security Features in the Solaris 10 OS
Zones and Containers Prove an Effective Defense Against Exploitations

In a recent article, Glenn Brunette explains the use of the containers and zones available in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to develop what he calls "...an enhanced ability to detect and contain security breaches, limit privilege escalation, and minimize installation of root kits, Trojan horses, and other malware."
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10 Oct 2005
#15162
"Introduction to Intrusion Detection With Snort"
Amy Rich Discusses the Pattern-Matching Approach to Security

Amy Rich has written a Sun BigAdmin article entitled "Introduction to Intrusion Detection with Snort" that begins with a survey of intrusion detection systems (IDS) and then moves on to consider Snort, a pattern-matching network-based IDS. The paper considers abundant examples of code.
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