It is common for viruses, hacker attacks and system vulnerabilities to make the evening news on an almost weekly basis. Web sites such as SANS and CERT are updated daily with new viruses, worms and security holes. It has become a difficult task for system administrators to keep up with the task of securing their systems. Not only must they know about the constantly changing vulnerabilities that are present in software and hardware, but they must also continue to monitor for attacks, patch for new viruses and control access of internal users. Exploits can come in many forms. Viruses such as “I Love You” and “Melissa” can affect individual computers and web traffic through launching email attachments with malicious code. Denial of Service attacks send traffic to flood servers and bring them down.
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