Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson

Extreme Exploits

Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks (Hacking Exposed)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Take network security to the next level! This book has never before published advanced security techniques and step-by-step instructions showing how to defend against devastating vulnerabilities to systems and network infrastructure. Just about every day the media is reporting another hard-core hack against some organisation. It was reported mid-March that hackers had taken over one of Lexis Nexis' databases gaining access to the personal files of as many as 32,000 people. Extreme Exploits provides advanced methodologies and solutions needed to defend against sophisticated exploits by showing them how to use the latest advanced security tools. The book teaches you how little-known vulnerabilities have been successfully exploited in the real world and have wreaked havoc on large-scale networks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 187mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 741g
• ISBN-13: 9780072259551
• ISBN-10: 0072259558
• Artikelnr.: 14949701

Autorenporträt

Victor is an accomplished author, speaker, and teacher in the field of network security and a specialized consultant to some of the worlds most admired companies. Victors open source software has been distributed to hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and some is used in graduate-level college curricula to demonstrate advanced networking techniques. Early in his career as an engineer, Victor developed portions of the backbone systems infrastructure for Genuity, the first Internet data center company. Later, as a senior architect for BBN and GTE Internetworking, Victor developed security-related products and services centered on public key infrastructure (PKI). A great deal of Victor's professional career has been dedicated to tactical engineering and consulting for global telecom operators and critical infrastructure organizations in industries such as power and water, financial services, and defense. Some of the largest global companies frequently call upon Victor to perform advanced vulnerability assessments, provide expert counsel, and navigate complex regulatory issues concerning information security. An accomplished executive and engineer in network security, data hosting services, and software development, Victor also holds US intellectual property patents in distributed adaptive routing and wireless consumer applications.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Core Internet Infrastructure for Security Professionals
Chapter 1: Internet Infrastructure for Security Professionals
Chapter 2: ISP Security Practices: Separating Fact From Fiction
Chapter 3: Securing the Domain Name System
Part 2: Defending Your Perimeter and Critical Internet Infrastructure: Why
Today's Perimeter Isn't Yesterday's Perimeter
Chapter 4: Reliable Connectivity
Chapter 5: Securing the Perimeter
Chapter 6: DMZs In-Depth
Chapter 7: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Chapter 8: Remote Application Access and Filtering
Chapter 9: E-Mail Gateways, Filtering, and Redundancy
Chapter 10: Data Leaks -- Exploiting Egress
Chapter 11: Sinkhole and Backscatter Tools
Chapter 12: Securing Wireless Networks
Part 3: Network Vulnerability Assessments: Beyond the Script Kiddie: Tools
and Techniques for Security Professionals
Chapter 13: Public Information that Pro's Miss (but attackers don't)
Chapter 14: Coordination of Tools for Maximum Recon
Chapter 15: Building a Theatre of War -- the Winning Methodology for
Vulnerability Assessments
Chapter 16: Deploy: ATTACK / DEFEND
Part 4: You've been hacked: What comes next?
Chapter 17: Identifying Recon and Attacks in Progress
Chapter 18: Identifying, Containing, and Mitigating the Infiltration
Chapter 19: Exploiting Digital Forensics
Part 5: Designing New Threats and Countermeasures for Tomorrow
Chapter 20: Viruses, Worms, Trojans, and Malware
Chapter 21: Exploiting Software