January 16th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) released their monthly monitor report in collaboration with US-CERT, the report focus to assist the community with ways to secure and protect their environment. If we look at the report it is stated the increase of highly sophisticated malwares that are targeting different operating and industrial [...]
July 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Remote backdoors is ways that are used by hackers to maintain access on the compromised systems. Types of remote backdoors generally fall into three categories: Network Socket Listener, Trojan, or covert channels. Here there is an opensource tool that is called CloseTheDoor that can help you to discover and prevent these three categories of backdoor. [...]
July 11th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Depending on organizations structure and IT Infrastructure, the process for deploying new patches on operating systems can be complex and take considerable time. GFI Languard automates and simplifies this process, to make the transition quickly, almost without interruption to the company. Full installing or reinstalling any new update to software packages is like to repair [...]
May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new document published by the National Security Agency, this document comes to help and provide simple users a path for keeping their system secure and protected. Home users are faced by many security troubles, applying all required security measures are complicated due to the fast [...]
April 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua These days there are a great variety of security software designed to organize and manage global networks. Protecting internal resources from external threats, monitoring the network and blocking certain suspicious services is as a priority for any IT security professional. One available solution is Smothwall. Smothwall is a free, open source, customized distribution that includes [...]
Posted in Network security, Software Security 
Tags: Firewall, hardware, IPCop, Linux, Network security, open source, Security, Smoothwall, UTM, Vyatta 
12 Comments » April 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we can find a different Linux distribution for protecting the network infrastructure. Most of them are based on the opensource software and provide a solid protection against viruses, network attacks and even spam filtering. But selecting perfect solution can take more time than to implement it. so this post comes to provide a clear [...]
Posted in Network security Tags: Endian, Firewall, hardware, Linux, Network security, opensource, Security, Software 12 Comments » November 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua For organizations that want to keep their computer network secure, the most basic thing they can do is to keep it patched. It’s not necessarily the most glamorous work out there for your overworked and overstretched IT people (which is why so many organizations are ignoring patching, at their peril). But your servers, network systems, [...]
