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We are flattered by the recognition and awards this web site has received on the Internet and when our resources have made a difference in a student or a security professional's work.

Department of Defense - Department-Wide Information Assurance Program - Jan 2001

I was extremely flattered to find the DIAP of the US Department of Defense saluting InfoSysSec and listing it in their links of recommended web resources for information assurance professionals. What makes being on the DIAP list so neat is that InfoSysSec stands alone on the lst with all those government, university and military security web sites. So I am truly flattered for InfoSysSec to receive recognition by DIAP. Click on their logo to check out DIAP's list of recommended web sites and you will see why we are thrilled to have 'made the list'

January 2001 - and author Georges Tarbouriech wrote an excellent and comprehensive article on Linux security, with a particular slant towards the tools necessary for securing Linux boxes. So naturally we are pleased that at the end of his article he singled out the five sources where he found the information resources for the article and InfoSysSec was one of them Thanks Georges ! For the record the sites he recommended were :

http://www.linuxsecurity.com
http://www.sans.org
http://www.infosyssec.org
http://www.securityfocus.com
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/hotlistt

June 2000

Yah yah I know it is not in chronological order.... but I just found this interesting reference to InfoSysSec by BY CHRIS WOOD with BRENDA BRANSWELL in Montreal and ROBERT SCOTT in Toronto who were writing an article about " Fighting Net Crime " for Macleans Magazine - one of the top Canadian magazines. Its a good article and even mentions a few of the RCMP folks that I knew ( Hi Ya Tom ! say hi to Mark for me ). Well low and behold at the end of the article they recommended their readers to visit four web sites and InfoSysSec was one of them. The list included :

The Computer Emergency Response Team Co-ordination Centre.
Microsoft's security alert and advisory site
The National Infrastructure Protection Centre incident advisory site.
and
InfoSysSec - " Perhaps the most complete links page to other security sources

cooler.gif (13416 bytes) http://webcooler.ru/ January 14 2001

Well it's nice to know that our Russian friends appear to like InfoSysSec as well. Over the last couple of days I began to notice an increase in the number of visitors coming to InfoSysSec from Russia, the Soviet Federation of States and USSR origins. From what I gather a chap called LAS said something nice about InfoSysSec on the webCooler.ru web site. He apparently liked our online tutorials enough to tell all his friends and now about 450 of them a day have been visiting us !. Thanks LAS !

January 13th 2001

I just found a great article called "Think Information Security for Job Security" by Allan Hoffman for Monster Technology
and I was pleased to see that Allan gave InfoSysSec as one of five web sites that he recommended for his readers to explore more on this topic. Thanks Allan ! Just for the record and to be fair, the five web sites that Allan recommended were

INFOSYSSEC - the lowly little one person non-commercial, non-profit, hobby web site run by yours truly
Computer Security Institute - a membership based organization
Computer Security Resource Center - a division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Information Systems Security Association - a non-profit association for security professionals
Secureroot Computer Security Resource - M4D is a commercial internet content provider that develops web pages

Security Computing Magazine - January 16 2001
For the second year in a row our little web site has been nominated as the ' Best in the General Security ' category of their ' Readers Trust ' voting. So naturally we are totally in shock being compared against real software and hardware companies that provide the tools to secure networks and computers. Give a reading to our 'begging letter' where we solicited our viewers to take pity on us and to go and cast a vote for InfoSysSec. Although it shows me at my begging best... it does shed some light on why we are so flattered to have been nominated and it shows who the companies are that we were being pitted against. Noticably missing is the fact that for the second year in a row InfoSysSec was the only security web site to receive the honour of being nominated for the Readers Trust award... kewl ! Maybe if we are lucky we just might have another kudo entry here in February ( if by some odd fate we won our category - but I shall not be holding my breath - especially when you see the heavyweight contenders that we are being pitted against in the voting )

IASE Information Assurance Support Environment - January 2001

I am once again humbled to find my little web site being acknowledged by the real professioinals in the information security field. I know we have quite a regular flow of .mil and .gov visitors to our web site but it was nice to find the DISA IASE describing my web site as a 'HOTLINK' and saying " Outstanding Related Link - INFOSYSSEC - Security Portal - New link to a security resource. Is a must see." Thanks guys and gals of the IASE ! Your kind words are like a hot cup of coffee after a 48 hour shift at the computer !

3com December 29 2000

It does my heart proud when the top companies in the security, firewall and networking industry acknowledge our web site and have confidence in referring their customers to our web site for information. Such is the case with 3com who honored InfoSysSec by including us in their shortlist of recommended web sites. In fact we are honored to be listed alongsidie these other security web sites. For the record and because we enjoying sharing glory and comparison, the five recommended security web sites were :

www.infosyssec.org
www.insecure.org
www.securityportal.com
www.securityfocus.com
www.securitysearch.net

December 29 2000

A tragic topic - workplace violence and we are pleased to see CNN recommending InfoSysSec as one of four web sites for exploring more on the tragic topic. We are particularly pleased since our Violence in the workplace section represents only a small fraction of the security information resources that we have gathered. For the record, the other web sites recommended by CNN were :

CMG Associates
InfoSysSec for Information Security Professionals
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The University of Tennessee College of Business Administration

We would have put a link to their web site - but then we would have had to kill you afterwards ! December 2000

These guys are the 'real deal' - our front line troops in the coming cyberwars against hostile forces and so we are flattered as hell to see them referring to InfoSysSec as being one of the six places on their recommended hot list for places for" their graduates to come to stay up to speed on current developments/news in information assurance"

The Information Warfare Analysis and Research (IWAR) Laboratory provides a realistic environment for research, analysis, and instruction on military information operations and security topics. It provides an isolated "live fire" environment to work with real-world network and computer penetration tools and learn how to defend against them. The software installed in the laboratory includes commercially available information security products as well as DoD solutions.

So you can see they are one powerful and scary group of people (a good kind of scary like the NSA) and we are glad they like us enough to put us in the same category as those other five top government operated security web sites.

December 13 2000

Professor Perlman and Stephen Timmerman probably never thought that we would stumble on his essay on Data Encryption ( it was dated December 13th and we found it on December 19th ) Over the past three years we have seen many essays that gave reference to our online resources. We are always thrilled when our efforts have helped others. Maybe we will have to collect all the essays that referenced our web site and put them in their very own library here at InfoSysSec. I Hope you got an A+ on this essay Stephen !

December 2000
We are always pleased when we find our web site quoted in articles and even by student essay projects. So we were flattered to find Jeff Tyson writing for How Stuff Works referencing our little web site in his article about CARNIVORE. What exactly is Carnivore? Where did it come from? How does it work? What is its purpose? In this edition of How Stuff Works, you will learn the answers to these questions and more! by reading his article. Thanks Jeff !

December 2000
Digital Desk a televison show on CTV ( The Canadian Television Network ) selected InfoSysSec as the 'You Hit the Mark' web site of the Month. The five criteria the web site was judged on were : Public Good, Interactivity, Creativity, Humour and Resourcefulness. Now if we could just get the 32 million Canadians that watch CTV to dial in and visit us..

October 2000
SANS - In a great article by Anita Dodson on "How to Become a Bona Fide IT Security Professional" we were pleased to find our little web site listed at the top of her list for 'Online Job Banks' - ( she was referencing the Employment and Job Opportunities Section of our web site ). Thanks Anita !

CIOL: Computers, Internet, ebiz news & other Information Technology resources from India & abroad October 2000
With Kristi Aiyappa's article on the "Best on the Web' for Networking Protocols, she honours us by including InfoSysSec as one of her first picks and describes our site as follows : " If protocols, networking and security get your adrenaline pumping, then this Web site is a must see. It starts with the basics including tutorials on issues regarding privacy, intrusion detection etc. Similarly, the section on protocols starts with the basic introduction to how the Internet works and moves on to the explanation of various protocols." Thanks Kristi, we are pleased to see that our various sub-sections of the main web site are being found to be useful and world class.

August 2000

The HTCIA ( High Technology Crimes Investigators Association - Atlanta Chapter ) says " Excellent Links, lookup capabilities. Should be your first place to look "

As always we are truly humbled to receive such high acclaim from such a prestigious organization of information security professionals when comparing our web site against its peers..

Click here to read the article May 2000

InfoSecurity Magazine's Jay Heiser did an article on the 'top' security portals on the Net. Although Jay was pretty harsh with most of the other contenders that claim to be the 'most comprehensive' etc, he favourably summed up our web site as

" being the most exuberant security portal on the Web. Perhaps it's just their style of placing as many tiny little links as possible on the home page that makes it seem like the site has so many (in any case, there sure are a bunch of them). Clicking on the Policy link brings up a page with 76 links, which is more than most other sites put together. The preponderance of links contributes to an overall cluttered feel. On the other hand, the home page does provide entry points for search engines at an amazing number of security sites, including several AV vendors. "

The comparison pitted CERIAS Hotlist, Security Portal, Security Focus and Security Watch against our InfoSysSec Security Portal. Noticably missing were some of the other security resources on the Net. Not bad when you consider ours is a one person operation and the others are commercially funded or staffed with lots of employees...

March 6 2000

Its always nice to see our name in print. And when the Government Computer News magazine selects us as one of only eight recommended web sites for government security specialist and officials to visit it makes the recommendation all that more better. Just for interest sake the recommended security sites were :

• www.cert.org—the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
• www.fedcirc.com—the Federal Incident Response Capability
• www.fbi.gov/nipc/index.htm—the National Infrastructure Protection Center
• www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/index.html —Infosyssec, the Security Portal for Information Systems Security Professionals, started by students at Algonquin College
• www.kumite.com/myths—the site run by Barn Owl Software focuses on myths surounding computer viruses
• www.sans.org—the SANS Institute
• www.symantec.com/avcenter—Symantec Corp.’s AntiVirus Research Center Department
• www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime—the Justice Computer Department Crime and Intellectual Property Section

It's always flattering to be ranked with such top ranked and prestigious security web sites and we thank Richard Walker ( the author of the article ) for honouring us in this way. Click on the GCN logo to read the article.

February 9 2000

Our humble thanks go out to the Judges at the Internet World 2000 Conference and Trade Show who picked our little web site as the Best on the Web in the Work Category. That is pretty high accolades when you figure that judges measured this site against all its peers - and even against non-security web sites to choose this site.

February 2000

Security Computing Magazine selected this web site as one of the Top Security "Products" on the Net for their annual awards.

We are the first and ONLY security web site to have ever been nominated for the Security Computing award. Voting for their nominees closes on February 29th.

This nomination alone is worthy of mentioning since we are being compared and judged against commercial security products in the Top Security Products category. Pretty high praise indeed from one of the most esteemed security magazines.

We will know after February 29th who won the category. But we are amazed just to have been nominated against such big brand name companies and producers of security products.

CMP's TechWeb picked this web site as the "Best of the Web" in the Security Category. Nice accolades !

InfoSysSec Security Portal is the at the following Internet Search Engines in the Security Category using the DMOZ Open Search Directory. ( There are over 50 of them and growing every day ) who all state :

#1 Information Systems Security Resource
A large collection of links to computer and network security, physical and site security, viruses and trojans, programming language tutorials, resumes, security employment opportunities. (Algonquin College)

Let's start with the big names first...

All the Web
AltaVista
Amazon
AOL Search
Deja
Direct Hit
Dogpile
EuroFerret
EuroSeek
Excite
Google
GoTo
HotBot
Infind
Infoseek
Lycos
MetaCrawler
Netscape
Northern Light
WebCrawler
Yahoo

Ah it is wonderful being the DMOZ Editors Pick - which means we are the Recommended Security web site at :

dmoz.org - project home
Aardvarks MetaSearch - Uses the entire ODP Directory plus Meta-Searches 12 search engines + 2 newsgroups.
ABC.Net - Directory uses ODP data.
ActionSearch - Uses the Personal Open Directory, scraping off of directory.netscape.com.
AFO Internet Search and Web Directory - Arizona Football Online's web directory and search engine using ODP data.
Aldar.net - Using POD script to provide ODP data.
AltaVista - Search engine using ODP data. Displays directory results at the bottom of searches
AltaVista Sverige - Uses the World/Svenska part of the ODP.
AOL Search
3apes.com - Search engine based on ODP data with traffic-for-ranking bidding system, from Bomis.
AT&T WorldNet Service - Largest pure ISP in the U.S. Uses ODP data on their member portal.
Autism Society of Alabama - Links to autism, disability and government categories using the POD script.
Bangkok.Com - Using Anaconda script to provide ODP data.
Be@ - WebGuide - German portal uses ODP Data to add more content.
Bergenlineavenue.Com - ODP categories are on the main page of the site (POD script).
Better Brain's Search - metasearch
BitPile - Directory and search results based on ODP
boatyard.org - A directory of boating sites on the web. Uses Recreation: Boating ODP data.
Bomis.Com - Makes use of all the ODP.
Borland Community Web Directory - Site uses ODP Data (very old snapshot). Does not give proper credit.
Business Nation - Uses the ODP data to supplement the business listings in its business library.
CityFind.net - Using the Anaconda scripts, CityFind.net offers users access to the ODP directory.
Collect-Online - Uses parts of Recreation/Collecting and others.
crg.net Custom Netcenter - Uses POD script for ODP data -- no other content.
CyberBritain.co.uk - Uses the Open Directory, own data and "intelligent search agent technology."
Dazzo - Search Multiple Auction Sites. Uses ODP data.
Densitron - Web hosting and design, offers the "Densitron Open Directory" as a search option.
Dictionary.com - Free english dictionary. Uses ODP data to add more content.
Direct Hit - Applies Direct Hit technology to sites in the Open Directory.
Dog.Com - Searches dog-related sections of the ODP.
Dogpile - metasearch engine
Educate Open Directory - Uses the POD script. Part of the Educate the Children site (http://www.educate.org.uk).
Elevation Online - Uses ODP data to provide a directory on the front page.
ExpertsAvenue Information Highway - Uses ODP (Anaconda script).
Fansites.com - Uses the POD script.
FindMissingPeople.com - Uses Personal Open Directory to provide ODP content.
FishHoo Open Directory - Uses Personal Open Directory.
FlamingoLingo Web Directory - From FlamingoLingo web resources, using the POD script.
FluffyMoose.com - This web portal Meta-Searches and sends users directly to ODP after clicking past the top level categories.
Freefill.com - Fill up for free at freefill.com - a portal built entirely on freely available content.
FullWebInfo Directory & Search Engine - ODP data and meta-search.
GlobeCrawler - Offers a metasearch and the Open Directory (seems to be provided by Anaconda script). Unfortunately, the metasearch doesn't include the directory :-( .
GoCrawl Directory - Uses ODP data.
Go2Net.Com - Uses the ODP on the left sidebar -- it's labelled Search.
HotBot - Makes use of almost all Open Directory project content in its directory section
InfoSpace.com - Site uses ODP Data in their "Net Search" area
InternetTrash - Uses the directory for search.
JimWorld Open Directory - Directory on the VirtualPromote.com site. Apparently uses the Personal Open Directory script.
Kingston Internet - Uses the Personal Open Directory script.
LinkStad - A Dutch website featuring the categories in World/Nederlands. The search option searches the whole directory. Uses the POD script.
Locate - Uses Anaconda to get ODP data.
Loquax Open Directory - Uses the phpOpen script to add ODP content to the UK's online competition directory.
Lycos - ODP data is available on their home page and through searches
McFind.com - ODP data and auction metasearch provided by Anaconda -- no other content.
MetaCrawler - Metacrawler Directory section is Open Directory data.
MetaPro.com - This search engine and portal uses all of the ODP and Meta-Searches: Lycos, Infoseek, Deja.com, Yahoo, Altavista, Hotbot, Snap, Goto, Northern Light, Excite, Looksmart, and Lycos.
The MindSite - Uses the POD.
My AltaVista - Uses the ODP data - built by the Zip2 subsidiary of AltaVista
Mygo - The "More..." links under each category go to their version of the Open Directory.
Net-Fetch.com Web Directory - Uses POD script.
NetFinder USA - Makes use of the entire ODP along with a metasearch of Infoseek, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo.
Netscape Search
Netscape What's Related
Newswelt - Uses the German part of the ODP. No credit given.
`The ODP Bl0wfish Style' - Another simple way to browse the ODP.
Oingo - "home of meaning-based search!" Uses Open Directory data with an intelligent search feature that distinguishes between different meanings of search terms.
OnWashington - The Washington Post's local, customized page for the Metro D.C. area, ODP data on the front page.
Palmreach
Pandia Plus - The Pandia Plus Internet Directory is a part of the Pandia Search Central - a site devoted to Internet searching in general. Pandia Plus is powered by the ODP. Uses Anaconda.
Plebius!
Point2 - A German search engine that is completely banner-free, using ODP Data.
PointClickSurf - Web portal that directly connects to major categories of all portals, including the content from the open directory, all on one page.
Premier Stores Directory
Primeline Open Directory - Uses the POD script and links to 40+ other search engines.
Proyecto Celestes - Uses all the directory via the POD script.
RageWorld.com - This portal is using the Anaconda script for ODP. Note: Exiting visitors are held hostage by this sites use of frames.
SavvySearch - SavvySearch features ODP data integrated with topical metasearch results.
Scopie - ODP- and Inktomi-based search engine geared towards teenagers and young adults.
Search It Now - Just a doorway to a POD installation. An excuse to display advertising.
Search Viking - Uses POD script.
Searchalot - An interesting variation which looks to be based on the RDF dumps, this version has a unique method for displaying cool sites -- instead of the "-" that normally separates title and description, cool sites get a ":-)"
search.ch - Using the ODP data with a focus on the swiss parts. International categories are references through links at the end of the category pages.
Simplypets - Online pet resource featuring pet news, pet quotations, pet food recipes, message boards, and a pet directory based on the Open Directory.
SmartBeak.com - A centralized knowledge base and bug tracking system with advanced collaboration features in one place for the Linux and Open Source Communities. Uses ODP data for it's Linux Directory.
Surfer.ch - Swiss Internet portal, using the World/Deutsch (German) section of the ODP.
TheExecutive Club - USA - Portal for use by ISPs, includes ODP data.
Thunderstone.com
ToggleBot! : Search Engine - Another dmoz powered directory site
TopFile.com - Uses full ODP Directory plus Freeware, Shareware, Beta Archive for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000.
Undertainment - New search engine and site promotion tool. This site is designed to bring you more traffic.
Waypages - Subject pages have search links for 8 other directories and individual ODP listings where applicable.
Web-Search.Com Metasearch - Metasearch includes ODP data and includes the ODP directory via Anaconda on a sub-page.
Web-Source.net - A directory to assist the webmaster in designing, marketing and promoting websites and products.
Winscope - Standard metasearch-and-POD combo, identical to a few other sites in this category. Main purpose is advertising.
YourPortal

As if that isn't enough hehehehhe.... MICROSOFT puts this web site in a very small and select crew of RECOMMENDED security web sites :

I was just visiting the Microsoft web site and checking out the December 2nd SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS NEWSFLASH Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 47 - December 2, 1999

At the bottom of the page you will find Microsoft recommending only five links for SECURITY RELATED INFORMATION :

The InfoSysSec Security Portal was listed with two Microsoft owned sites, plus SANS and CERT. Kewl that they like us !

AFCEA's Journal for Communications, Electronics, Intelligence, and Information Systems Professionals Who put this web site in the same esteemed company as 5 other world reknown web sites. We are featured in their August 1999 Magazine called 'Signals That is mighty esteemed praise when coming from the top professionals in the security field.

Newspaper Review
Says "Algonquin College in Ottawa has put together what must be the most comprehensive links and articles page on the World Wide Web for those important people who are charged with protecting us from computer and Internet skullduggery. If you are interested, you can find articles and links on disaster recovery, business continuity, threat risk assessments, computer security, network security, viruses, cryptography, encryption, privacy, confidentiality, physical security, telecommunications security, employment in security and anything else concerning the topic. I just saved security agents a whole lot of Internet search time. "

A Recommended Link !
Says " Sponsored by Algonquin College, Links, news, portal, security classes and more ! "

Michigan State University Library
Says " Over 12000 links courtesy of Algonquin College "

Loss Prevention HQ
Says " Tons of very useful links ! "

I will add more of the accolades this web site is garnering as time permits - boasting and ego blast are not our priority here at the moment... but we always freak out when our hard work is recognized by our peers. We don't get paid here so the only thing we can take to the bank are compliments for a job well done.