 Hardening Cisco Routers (O'Reilly Networking)
Master one single topic, and everything becomes clearer.
The field of network security is a huge subject. To be a network security expert, you must be an expert on routers, switches, hubs, firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), servers, desktops, email, HTTP, instant messages, sniffers, and a thousand other topics. There are... |  |  Intrusion Prevention and Active Response : Deploying Network and Host IPSFrom the Foreword by Stephen Northcutt, Director of Training and Certification, The SANS Institute
Within a year of the infamous "Intrusion Detection is Dead" report by Gartner, we started seeing Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) products that actually worked in the real world. Security professionals are going to be... |  |  Security Log Management: Identifying Patterns in the ChaosLogs, logs, logs. Ever since I started taking my first steps in the world of security, it has been clear that “the log” plays a crucial—and sometimes undervalued— role in the security management of any IT infrastructure.This fact alone explains the plethora of tools, applications, and solutions whose only... |