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GENERAL/GENERIC:

CERT Coordination Center

http://www.cert.org/

CERT: Creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team

http://www.cert.org/csirts/
Creating-A-CSIRT.html

Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/

Computer Operations Audit and Security Technology (COAST)

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

Computer Security Institute

http://www.gocsi.com

Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

http://first.org/

GIAC

http://www.giac.org/

Human Firewall

http://www.humanfirewall.org/

Interactive Online Education

http://www.ioeducation.com/

Internet Security Systems           security research

http://xforce.iss.net/

Internet Storm Center (SANS)

http://isc.incidents.org/

SANS

http://www.sans.org

TechRepublic

http://www.techrepublic.com

World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.w3.org/

GOVERNMENTAL

E-Gov

http://www.e-gov.com/

Federal Computer Incident Response Center (US Dept. of Homeland Security)

http://www.fedcirc.gov/

Federal Computer Week magazine

http://www.fcw.com

Government Computer News State & Local Government computer news

http://www.gcn.com (search on security, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, etc.)
http://www.gcnstateandlocal.com

Government Technology magazine

http://www.govtech.net

InfraGard (FBI partnership with private industry)

http://www.infragard.net/

National Computer Security Association  (NCSA)

http://www.icsa.net/

National Information Assurance Partnership

http://www.niap.nist.gov/

National Institute of Standards and Technology  (NIST)

http://csrc.nist.gov/

United States General Accounting Office (GAO)

http://www.gao.gov/                       (search on security, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, etc.)

US General Services Administration (GSA)

http://www.gsa.gov/ (search on security, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, etc.)

VENDOR/PLATFORM SPECIFIC:

HP

http://www.hp.com/security/

IBM

http://www-3.ibm.com/security/index.shtml

Microsoft Security Advisor

http://www.microsoft.com/security

NT

http://www.ntsecurity.net/

NT,  Steps for Evaluating the Security

http://www.ntresearch.com/ntchecks.htm

GLOSSARIES:

Computer Vulnerabilities

http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm

Encyclopedia of Computer Security

http://www.itsecurity.com/

Information Security Glossary

http://www.yourwindow.to/information-security/

Microsoft Security & Privacy Glossary

http://www.microsoft.com/security/glossary/

SANS Glossary of Terms

http://www.sans.org/resources/glossary.php

Univ. of Southern California Office of Information Security Glossary

http://www.usc.edu/org/infosec/resources/
glossary_a.html