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vik3.jpg - 9205 Bytes Vikram "Vik" Phatak is currently Chief Technology Officer at AmbironTrustWave, a leading provider of information security and compliance management solutions to Fortune 2000 businesses and the public sector, where he is responsible for the management and development of the company's technology in support of its unified threat management product line.

Vik created of Lucid Security's groundbreaking "Adaptive Intelligence" technology, and has over 11 years of experience in the Internet Security arena. One of the Information Security industry's foremost thought leaders on vulnerability management and threat protection, Vik studied at UCLA and Temple University.

In 2001 he founded Lucid Security and has guided the design and development of the Company's award winning technology which has been deployed in hundreds of enterprise organizations worldwide. Vik previously served as Global Director of Networks & Security at Teleflex Inc, a publicly-traded Fortune 500 company, and co-founded Intermedia Sciences Group, Inc. in 1995, one of the nations first security consulting firms (acquired in early 1999). A published author of numerous whitepapers and frequent industry speaker, he has delivered presentations at 2006 Homeland Security for Networked Industries, 2006 SATO/RSA, 2005 Information Security Decisions, CSI NetSec 2005, and various other security conferences across the country.  



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The OSI and the TCP/IP Layers

TCP

IP

Network & Application Layer Attacks
    Network Layer DoS
        Syn Flood
        Ack Flood
        RESET Attack
        FIN Attack
        Teardrop Attack

    IP Spoofing
        Predicting TCP Sequence Numbers

    Application Layer Attacks
        Buffer Overflows
        Trojans
        Backdoors
        Cross-site Scripting
        CGI abuses

Firewalls
    Packet Filters
    Proxy Firewalls
        Circuit Level Proxies
        Application Level Proxies
    Stateful Inspection Firewalls
  Limitations of Firewalls

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
    Signature Based
    Anomaly Based
        Statistical Anomaly Based
        Protocol Anomaly Based
    Host Based IDS (HIDS)
    Network Based IDS (NIDS)
        Protocol Anomaly Based NIDS
        Signature Based NIDS

Web Application Firewalls

Vulnerability Assesment
    Host Based Scanner
    Network Based Scanner
    Web Application Vulnerability Scanner

Content Filters

Encryption

Conclusion




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