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1) Increasing Security on IP Networks. An old, but essential document on some of the essentials to security an IP based networks. This document covers many of the essentials. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/data/doc/cintrnet/ics/icssecur.htm

2) Cisco's INTERNET SECURITY ADVISORIES. An online list of all of Cisco's Security advisories. Includes tutorials and details on how to protect yourself from some of the ugliness on the Internet today. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/largeent/security/advisory.html

3) Cisco's IOS Documentation - 11.2 Security Configuration Guide. The 11.2 reorganized many of the security features of IOS into their own chapter. Available on the Cisco Documentation CD or publicly on-line via Cisco Connection On-Line (CCO): http://www.cisco.com/univercd/data/doc/software/11_2/2cbook.htm

4) RFC 2196 Site Security Handbook. B. Fraser. September 1997. One of the most useful starting places for Internet security. http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2196.txt

5) Craig Huegen's SMURF page. A very useful resource for ISPs to learn how to protect themselves from many flavors of denial of service attacks. http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.txt

6) Jared Mauch's [Jared@puck.nether.net] Smurf Sweep Results Page. Jared has scanned large sections of the Internet looking for networks that could be used as smurf amplifiers. This page lists his results and provides away to check IP prefixes and AS numbers. http://puck.nether.net/smurf-check/

7) Essential IOS Features Every ISP Should Consider. Lots of security configs for the ISPs. It's also applicable to any network. http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/

8) WheelGroups's Whitepapers. They have not been converted to "Cisco", but are extremely useful - showing how our new NetRanger/NetSonar are integrated into the Security policy/plan.

8.1) Security Posture Assessment by Lee Sutterfield, WheelGroupCorporation. http://www.wheelgroup.com/securlib/spa_abst.html

8.2) WheelGroup Security Library. A collection of articles and white papers of interest to WheelGroup and its customers. http://www.wheelgroup.com/securlib/1securlib.html

9) RFC 2350 Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response.Expresses the general Internet community's expectations of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs). Excellent for creating seucrity alert plans inaISP. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2350.txt

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