📅 - The System Administration, Networking and Security Institute (sans.org) announced a press conference call followed by a Web cast training seminar to show network and system administrators about the free Cisco Router Audit Tool, and how it helps protects Cisco routers from common attacks.
The conference call will be at 12:15 p.m. today, February 20, 2002. Pleaseemail paisleypage2000@yahoo.com to obtain the telephone number and PIN codefor the program. When routers are incorrectly set up, they open the door for cyber attacks onan organization. In addition routers are increasingly being used, bythemselves, to execute distributed denial of service attacks. The freeRouter Audit Tool is an "expert in a box" that finds out whether any Ciscorouter is an easy target for hackers, and then tells how to protect it, ifnecessary. Organizations and companies such as UUNET, Cable & Wireless, NationalSecurity Agency, SANS and the Center for Internet Security played key rolesin creating and unveiling this new technology.
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