Sources for monitoring Internet and Web security

Sources for monitoring Internet and Web security

During his election — and re-election — campaigns, former New York mayor Ed Koch used to turn to voters and ask, “How am I doing?” If you want to know how the field of network security is doing, here are a few sources you should consult regularly:

* McAfee has a user friendly set of AV stats, and free regular reports keeping ypu updated about the world of anti-virus

* Zone H keeps track of Web site defacements; they offer news, knowledge, and tools to help people cope with Web site defacements

* Eye Zero Day Tracker offers useful information on vulnerabilities that still have no patches, and could be exploited. Keeping tabs on the number of days of exposure is helpful for those who want to know how long it takes to patch something

* The Month of Bugs offers interesting information on risks and threats to networks; the information may also serve another purpose — prompt companies more aggressively to update or patch their code

* Aladdin offers general security statistics, and experts regard it as some of the best information security statistics available; see also Aladdin’s good general threat alert page

* Keynotes offers good Internet health report that may explain, for example, why the Internet is slow on a given day

* Internet Storm Center has a general information page offering interesting information; note especially the port metrics and trending that they get from DShield

-read more in Dan Morrill’s Webpronews discussion