Useful References on the World Wide Web

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http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast: Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology ( COAST ) ”the computer sciences department at Purdue University ”carries out computer security research. You can find lots of useful security information here.

http://www.cert.org: Formerly known as the Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT is a center of Internet security expertise. From here, you can subscribe to a regular mailing list.

http://www.gocsi.com: The Computer Security Institute maintains this site.

http://www.ipv6.org: This site dedicated to IPv6 contains information and useful links as well as a FAQ.

http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html: The Sun manager's searchable archive. This site contains summaries of the popular mailing lists going back to 1991.

http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/ipng-main.html: This site provides an excellent introduction to IPv6.

http://www.sans.org: This is the site of the SANS research and education organization. Subscribe here to receive regular news and security alerts. The biggest Unix system admin salary survey can be downloaded from here as well.

http://www.searchsolaris.com: A more recent Solaris site, full of news, reviews, events, recommended links, and tips. The site has a system management section containing useful links to articles and documents.

http://www.solarisguide.com: An unofficial guide to the Solaris operating environment, full of news, man pages, reviews, and RFCs. This site was founded by John Mulligan, author of Solaris Essential Reference .

http://www.sun.com: The main Sun Microsystems Web presence.

http://www.sunfreeware.com: The place to download public domain software for use with Solaris. The site offers versions for virtually all versions of SPARC- and INTEL-based systems.

http:// sunsolve .sun.com/: Support information, patches, bug reports, security reports , and white papers ”free areas and contract-only areas.

http://www.unixinsider.com: Formerly www.sunworld.com, This is an online magazine designed for the Sun community.

http://www.e-recovery.com: Web site for disaster recovery options offered by Sungard.

http://www.survive.com: A business continuity group for management professionals.

http://www.perl.com/perl/: The home page for Perl, for news, source code, documentation and more on the subject of Perl.

http://www.apache.org: Home of the Apache Software Foundation.

http://www.cio.com: An excellent resource for IT managers.

http://www.securityportal.com: Extensive security information. This site also has agreat article on "Firewalling with IPF."

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