Ebook description of Hardening Network Infrastructure:
Bulletproof your system before you are hacked! From the publisher of the international best-seller, Hacking Exposed, here is a brilliant new offering written with a passion for security that will help you make the necessary upgrades and take the essential steps to secure your network infrastructure. The concise and consistent approach breaks down security into logical parts, giving you actions to take immediately, information on hardening your system from the top down, and finally when to go back and make further upgrades.

This book is invaluable to anyone facing the challenges of security in a business environment.” –Paul D. Robertson, Moderator of Firewall-Wizards and Director of Risk Assessment, TruSecure Corporation A Note From Series Editor: “I first got to know Wesley Noonan through a common newsgroup. His insightful and technical comments stuck with me, and I finally met him at a conference several years later. Wes has the gift to present network security in a concise, well-reasoned way–easy for everyone to understand regardless of their security or networking knowledge. His writing style reflects his congenial presentation manner and his knowledge, and his eagerness to share his expertise is exceptional. Wes’s guide to hardening your network infrastructure provides the step-by-step how-to approach that you need to build, deploy, and maintain a security defense. I’ve read every word; you will not be disappointed.” –Roberta Bragg Features a four-part hardening methodology:

• Do This Now!–Checklist of immediate steps to take to lockdown your system from further attack
• Take It From The Top–Systematic approach to hardening your perimeter and internal network infrastructure, focusing on firewalls, IDS/IPS, network content filtering, wireless LAN connections, routers, and switches
• Once Is Never Enough!–Ongoing monitoring and assessment plan to keep your network secure, including patch management and auditing
• How to Succeed at Hardening Your Network Infrastructure–Strategies for getting budget approval, management buy-in, and employee cooperation for your security program

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Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of network security issues

• Identify and apply best practices for Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® systems
• Understand the fundamental tenets of information system security, especially confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA)
• Set up appropriate security policies and manage implementation
• Learn to secure Web browsers, protect corporate portals, and implement secure e-commerce applications
• Configure e-mail systems and set up different types of servers for safer access
• Choose the best security approach for various network protocols, particularly OSI and TCP
• Explore the special security issues of wireless networks
• Examine cryptography and steganography and how they can support communications security
• Test your system and interpret the results

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Learn about Ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission – the most talked about application in wireless communications.

UWB wireless communication is a revolutionary technology for transmitting large amounts of digital data over a wide spectrum of frequency bands with very low power for a short distance. This exciting new text covers the fundamental aspects of UWB wireless communications systems for short-range communications. It also focuses on more advanced information about networks and applications. Chapters include: Radio Propagation and Large Scale Variations, Pulse Propagation and Channel Modelling, MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) RF Subsystems and Ad Hoc Networks.

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Cisco: A Beginner’s Guide, Fourth Edition provides you with a practical hands-on resource for successfully designing and managing a Cisco network. Learn to work with Cisco routers and switches, wireless technologies, and storage tools. You’ll also get full details on network security, including firewalls, as well as communications solutions such as VoIP. This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in internetworking and Cisco technologies.

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The topics covered in Wireless Network Security book include intrusion detection, secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols, attacks and prevention, immunization, key management, secure group communications/multicast, secure location services, monitoring and surveillance, anonymity, privacy, trust establishment/management, redundancy and security, and dependable wireless networking.

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Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

Security Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS helps you plan a MARS deployment and learn the installation and administration tasks you can expect to face. Additionally, Security Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS teaches you how to use the advanced features of the product, such as the custom parser, Network Admission Control (NAC), and global controller operations. Through the use of real-world deployment examples, this book leads you through all the steps necessary for proper design and sizing, installation and troubleshooting, forensic analysis of security events, report creation and archiving, and integration of the appliance with Cisco and third-party vulnerability assessment tools.

Router Security Strategies: Securing IP Network Traffic Planes details the distinct traffic planes of IP networks and the advanced techniques necessary to operationally secure them. This includes the data, control, management, and services planes that provide the infrastructure for IP networking.

The first section provides a brief overview of the essential components of the Internet Protocol and IP networking. At the end of this section, you will understand the fundamental principles of defense in depth and breadth security as applied to IP traffic planes. Techniques to secure the IP data plane, IP control plane, IP management plane, and IP services plane are covered in detail in the second section.

The final section provides case studies from both the enterprise network and the service provider network perspectives. In this way, the individual IP traffic plane security techniques reviewed in the second section of the book are brought together to help you create an integrated, comprehensive defense in depth and breadth security architecture.

“Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures presents an introspective as well as practical perspective on Internet routing, including BGP, and how routers are built for routing. Along with its treatment of PSTN and transport routing, it covers the whole gamut in routing comprehensively.

Medhi and Ramasamy offer unique and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and practical aspects of routing from design to operations and algorithms to implementation. This book is a ‘must have’ reference for network engineers as well as students and researchers who want to have a solid understanding of routing evolution and the latest developments for next-generation routing.

One of the major goals of this Ethernet Networking for the Small Office and Professional Home Office is to demystify the jargon of networks so that the reader gains a working familiarity with common networking terminology and acronyms.

In addition, this books explains not only how to choose and configure network hardware but also provides practical information about the types of network devices and software needed to make it all work. Tips and direction on how to manage an Ethernet network are also provided.

This book therefore goes beyond the hardware aspects of Ethernet to look at the entire network from bottom to top, along with enough technical detail to enable the reader to make intelligent choices about what types of transmission media are used and the way in which the various parts of the network are interconnected.

Communicating Systems and Networks: Traffic and Performance presents the range of analytical tools and techniques that ensure traffic performance and quality of service in telecommunication systems and networks. To that end, it provides a methodology that may be applied to all phases of development, from conception to practical exploitation. Architectures and functions from the point of view of performance are described, and the basic concepts of teletraffic are introduced. This is then followed by definitions of quality of service and normalisation, and then the appropriate tools (probability theory, probability laws, and statistics), and techniques of evaluation (reliability, dependability, and queuing theory). These tools and techniques are also given a practical standpoint through the use of models and simulation techniques. They are placed in an industrial environment, providing a methodology to attain maximum effectiveness when dealing with the constraints of industrial application as well as the market.

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WiFi Home Networking is aimed primarily at small-office/home-office users. There are several advantages of a wireless network, said Smith, who found in researching the book that more than 20 million U.S. households have more than one computer. With a WiFi home network, several computers can share the same high-speed wireless Internet connection and the same printer. If you have a laptop computer, you can work anywhere in the house or even the back yard — because there are no wires to trip over. Wireless networks make it easy to share files between computers and remotely control one computer with another computer. And, homeowners don’t have to knock holes in walls like they would when running cable for a wired network. Smith said a wireless network makes working from home easier and more productive. Real estate agents, for example, can connect a WiFi camera to their computer and show out-of-town home buyers photos of houses, and a salesperson could sit in their home office and use the technology to video conference with field engineers.

No networking book would be complete without extensive coverage of security issues that affect anyone connected to the Internet. We show you how to secure each computer, secure your global networking settings, and batten down your wireless connections. The last part of the book includes intermediate networking tasks such as making remote connections, monitoring the network, troubleshooting network problems, and setting up Vista’s built-in web server and FTP server.

InfoSecurity 2008 Threat Analysis, compiled from the Syngress Security Library, is an essential reference for any IT professional managing enterprise security. It serves as an early warning system, allowing readers to assess vulnerabilities, design protection schemes and plan for disaster recovery should an attack occur. Topics include Botnets, Cross Site Scripting Attacks, Social Engineering, Physical and Logical Convergence, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS), Voice over IP (VoIP), and Asterisk Hacking.

>> Explores the state-of-the-art in cognitive networks, compiling a roadmap to future research.
>> Covers the topic of cognitive radio including semantic aspects.
>> Presents hot topics such as biologically-inspired networking, autonomic networking, and adaptive networking.
>> Introduces the applications of machine learning and distributed reasoning to cognitive networks.
>> Addresses cross-layer design and optimization.
>> Discusses security and intrusion detection in cognitive networks.

The focus of Practical Industrial Data Networks: Design, Installation and Troubleshooting is ‘outside the box’. The emphasis goes beyond typical communications issues and theory to provide the necessary toolkit of knowledge to solve industrial communications problems covering RS-232, RS-485, Modbus, Fieldbus, DeviceNet, Ethernet and TCP/IP. The idea of the book is that in reading it you should be able to walk onto your plant, or facility, and troubleshoot and fix communications problems as quickly as possible. Practical Industrial Data Networks: Design, Installation and Troubleshooting is the only title that addresses the nuts-and-bolts issues involved in design, installation and troubleshooting that are the day-to-day concern of engineers and network specialists working in industry.

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Network Intrusion Detection – 3rd Edition is a training aid and reference for intrusion detection analysts. While the authors refer to research and theory, they focus their attention on providing practical information. The authors are literally the most recognized names in this specialized field, with unparalleled experience in defending our country’s government and military computer networks. New to this edition is coverage of packet dissection, IP datagram fields, forensics, and snort filters.

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This Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management should be immensely interesting to those trying to decide what MANET research is worth undertaking and why.

Mobile ad hoc networking is a hot topic, gaining importance in both commercial and military arenas. Now that the basics in the field have settled and standards are emerging, the time is right for a book on management of these networks. From two experts in the field, Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management provides comprehensive coverage of the management challenges associated with mobile ad hoc networks(MANETs) and includes an in-depth discussion of how policy-based network management can be used for increasing automation in the management of mobile ad hoc networks.

Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks will be an invaluable tool for both researchers and engineers in the industry who are responsible for designing, developing, deploying and maintaining mesh optical networks. It will also be a useful reference book for graduate students and university professors who are interested in optical networks or telecommunications networking.

Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks combines both theoretical as well as practical aspects of routing and dimensioning for mesh optical networks. All authors have worked as technical leaders for the equipment vendor Tellium who implemented such capabilities in its product, and whose product was deployed in service provider networks.