June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
To detect and prevent attacks on your system, you need to use firewalls, intrusion detection tools, and anti-virus tools.
Firewalls block certain traffic from entering your environment and examine network traffic. Intrusion detection tools examine network behavior behind the firewall for abnormal patterns. Anti-virus tools examine data content for suspicious modifications and virus signatures.
One of the threats you need to assess in any environment, including a Linux-on-the-mainframe environment, is the denial-of-service attack. One part of the defense against denial-of-service attacks is using firewall techniques.
A firewall is a secure and trusted system that ...