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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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.

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.

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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By following this WiFi Security, corporations can go wireless and still protect mission-critical data. Top corporate security consultant Stewart Miller covers security for Windows, Linux, Macs, Palms, and other PDAs and shows how to prevent breaches caused by weak encryption protocols.

• Review security approaches for the different standards currently competing for the U.S. market
• Addresses data compromise, unauthorized access, and denial of service–all critical to WLAN users
• Covers the 802.11 IEEE standard in regards to security, performance, and throughput
• Discusses encryption and privacy through the WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol

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Written with insight by a noted IT expert and commentator, this Installing, Troubleshooting, And Repairing Wireless Networks book provides comprehensive coverage of this rapidly emerging technology, and in the process:

• Introduces all wireless components, both off-the-shelf and subscriber products
• Covers WiFi technologies as 802.11a and b
• Includes all scales of wireless networks, from home to office, cafes and campuses, airports and hotels, to MANs, and describes what’s best for different needs
• Shows how to integrate wired and wireless LANs
• Discusses the benefits and pitfalls of wireless technologies
• Advises how to set up and maintain security features

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HackNotes Web Security Portable Reference describes the hacks and vulnerabilities threatening today’s Web applications, then provides the defenses necessary to counteract and destroy threats of all manner. Determine whether a vulnerability exists, then attack and overcome application weaknesses through a series of tested and trusted anti-hacking methods, bullet-proof best practices, and code-level techniques. Use the unique Reference Center in the middle of the book to access security commands, input validation checklists, tables for alternate encoding schemes, online resources, SQL injection hints, application testing methodologies, and more. Find critical information in seconds with special 32-page Reference Center insert Configure a secure Web server and develop secure Web applications Learn and understand application scouring and penetration methodologies Protect application data from unauthorized access Create hardened policies, applications, and services Track evidence of application attacks in Web server log files Block platform and Web application vulnerabilities Learn the tools available to handle session hijacking, SQL injection, and more Eliminate common programming pitfalls in ASP, PHP, Java, and Perl Identify Web-based attacks with thorough log analysis

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Network Security Foundations provides essential knowledge about the principles and techniques used to protect computers and networks from hackers, viruses, and other threats. What you learn here will benefit you in the short term, as you acquire and practice your skills, and in the long term, as you use them. Topics covered include:

• Why and how hackers do what they do
• How encryption and authentication work
• How firewalls work
• Understanding Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Risks posed by remote access
• Setting up protection against viruses, worms, and spyware
• Securing Windows computers
• Securing UNIX and Linux computers
• Securing Web and email servers
• Detecting attempts by hackers

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Written by leading security and counter-terrorism experts, whose experience include first-hand exposure in working with government branches & agencies (such as the FBI, US Army, Department of Homeland Security), Cyber Adversary Characterization : Auditing the Hacker Mind sets a standard for the fight against the cyber-terrorist. Proving, that at the heart of the very best defense is knowing and understanding your enemy.

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Managing and Securing a Cisco SWAN (Structured Wireless Aware Network) builds on Syngress’s successful books Cisco Security Specialists Guide to PIX Firewalls and Building a Cisco Wireless LAN. As this title suggests, this book is a complete guide to Cisco’s latest generation of Wireless technologies with a particular emphasis on security. These technologies and products were part of a series of major announcements by Cisco in June, 2003, that essentially stake the future of the company to their success.

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Security Sage’s Guide to Hardening the Network Infrastructure provides detailed guidance on real-world network threats and exposures. While most network security books focus on ancillary topics, such as operating systems, RDBMS, groupware, and other applications, this book will concentrate strictly on the nuts and bolts of networks, such as routers, firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and the networking protocols that work in congress with them. It has over 200 pages dedicated to the most up-to-date network layer attacks and mitigation techniques across an wide assortment of vendors and not just the typical attention paid to market leaders such as Cisco and Checkpoint. This expanded breadth will help reach a wider range of network engineers who may not have the budget to purchase and install best-of-breed hardware, but want to know how to make the most out of what they do have

Introduction to Computer Security presents a clear introduction to the art and science of information security. Discusses issues such as confidentiality, legal and human factors, using cryptography, and applying security principles to networks.

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