Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

Network Security Assessment, 2nd Edition
by Chris McNab
Publisher: O’Reilly
Pub Date: November 1, 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51030-5
Pages: 504

How secure is your network? The most appropriate approach to find out is to conflict it. Network Security Assessment provides we with a tricks as well as collection veteran confidence consultants make make use of of to brand as well as consider risks in Internet-based networks-the same invasion contrast indication they make make use of of to secure government, military, as well as blurb networks. With this book, we can adopt, refine, as well as reuse this contrast indication to pattern as well as muster networks that have been tougher or stronger as well as defence from attack.

Network Security Assessment demonstrates how a dynamic assailant scours Internet-based networks in poke of exposed components, from a network to a concentration level. This brand new book is present upon a ultimate hacking techniques, though rsther than than concentration upon particular issues, it looks during a bigger design by organisation as well as analyzing threats during a high-level. By organisation threats in this way, we sense to emanate defensive strategies opposite complete conflict categories, upon condition that insurance right away as well as in to a future.

Network Security Assessment helps we assess:

• Web services, together with Microsoft IIS, Apache, Tomcat, as well as subsystems such as OpenSSL, Microsoft FrontPage, as well as Outlook Web Access (OWA)
• Web concentration technologies, together with ASP, JSP, PHP, middleware, as well as backend databases such as MySQL, Oracle, as well as Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Windows networking components, together with RPC, NetBIOS, as well as CIFS services
• SMTP, POP3, as well as IMAP email services
• IP services that yield secure inbound network access, together with IPsec, Microsoft PPTP, as well as SSL VPNs
• Unix RPC services upon Linux, Solaris, IRIX, as well as alternative platforms
• Various sorts of application-level vulnerabilities that hacker collection as well as scripts exploit
• Assessment is a initial step any classification should take to begin handling report risks correctly. With techniques to brand as well as consider risks in line with CESG CHECK as well as NSA IAM supervision standards, Network Security Assessment gives we a accurate process to do only that.

About a Author
Chris McNab is a Technical Director of London-based confidence organisation Matta, that provides technical precision as well as invasion contrast services. A full-time network confidence researcher for some-more than 6 years, Chris has worked with most vast clients as well as supervision organizations in a UK as well as Europe to assistance them urge network confidence by invasion contrast as well as upon condition that confidence training.

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