Fingerprinting is a technique used by attackers to determine product and version information about operating systems and applications running on remote systems. The technique is called fingerprinting because each platform or version number for a software product gen¬erally has its own specific ways of responding to differ¬ent requests that uniquely identify it, (more…)

Incident response is planned action in response to adverse events affecting systems, networks, and data. Response to an incident can range from recording the incident to alerting an incident response team to initiating legal action against malicious individuals. The best way to deal with incidents affecting information security is to follow a planned approach laid out in a carefully developed security policy. (more…)