about Brent Huston

Brent Huston is president and CEO of MicroSolved Inc., a systems and network security-consulting service for Fortune 500 companies and government facilities. He has 15 years of professional experience in cyber security testing, network monitoring, scanning protocols, firewalls, viruses and virus prevention formats, incident response, forensic computing and hacker techniques. He also served as co-author and technical editor of Hack Proofing Your E-Commerce Site.

What I've posted

Mod_security, a free web application for Apache

Tip | Security | Software | 6/25/08 at 10:05 pm | add a comment | 8I like it!

Tips for input validation

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Beware of 'free' infosec

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Yesterday's SQL worms, today's problem

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Security Tip: 3 steps towards securing virtual machines

How-to | Security | 10/9/07 at 8:04 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Time for a change

Opinion | Security | 6/11/07 at 12:02 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Security Tip: Patch exploitation

How-to | Security | 4/10/07 at 3:31 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Security Tip: Three inexpensive ways to increase security

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Security Tip: Don't be seduced by penetration testing certifications

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Conference notes: ID theft in under 15 seconds

Opinion | Security | 3/27/07 at 1:26 pm | add a comment | I like it!
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Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
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Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
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