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SecurLAN Gaming
For the gaming industry many of the new gaming devices (slot machines, progressive jackpots and others) are network controlled and monitored"Convergence" is a theme commonly discussed that relates to the way more and more hardware and security devices are operated over the IP network. IPV6 will now provide each hardware and security component with a unique IP address.
Due to the growing regulatory compliance measures (SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, and others) data protection is no longer a corporate choice; it's the law Network Security Sensors can help prevent physical attacks from internal and external sources, and they also protect against accidental intrusions and the insider threat. A significant percentage of network downtime can be attributed to physical layer conditions and connections.
In today's networks, there are three primary cable types: unshielded twisted pair (UTP) category 5 (or higher) and fiber optic. The risk of an attacker accessing your physical cabling is important to consider because that level of access often can bypass other security controls and provide the attacker with easy access to information (provided encryption is not used). UTP cable is very easy to tap, but it was thought years ago that fiber was immune to cable taps. We now know that this is not the case.
It has now been shown that it is relatively easy to "tap" information out of an optical fiber with negligible interference to the optical signal. Hand-held coupling devices, originally designed as testing tools, are commercially available and can easily be employed by those wishing to engage in information theft. Additionally, if an attacker gains physical access to a wiring closet or the fiber cable as it runs in a cable tray above a drop ceiling, tapping the cable by installing couplers is another possibility.
As a tool for network diagnostics,utilizing a physical intrusion detection sensor for physical network security canhelp determine if a threat is cyber (logical) or physical - and thereby accelerate the investigation and identification of the network problem.
In the context of "Total Network Protection", Layer One security considerations, and the awareness of the vulnerability at the physical layer is projected to increase in importance as security and risk managers seek a complete threat mitigation posture.
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