Oracle Security

Security Electronic References

This section contains references to helpful security-related web sites and newsgroups.

Security Web Sites

These web sites are likely to be helpful informational resources. Some will be particularly useful if you have to deal with an attack on your site.

COAST

COAST (Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology) is a multi-project, multi-investigator effort in computer security research and education in the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University. COAST contains information about software, companies, FIRST teams, archives, standards, professional organizations, government agencies, and FAQs^[8]—among other goodies. The WWW hotlist index at COAST is the most comprehensive list of its type available on the Internet at this time. COAST also provides a valuable service to the Internet community by maintaining a current and well-organized repository of the most important security tools and documents on the Internet; you can obtain these via anonymous FTP.

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/coast.html

FIRST

FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) maintains a large archive of material, including pointers to web pages for other FIRST teams.

http://www.first.org

CERT-CC

CERT-CC (Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center) was founded in response to the Internet worm incident in 1988. CERT-CC acts as a clearinghouse for information, and helps organizations respond to security attacks. You can get on CERT-CC’s mailing list for security ...