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Get Ready for OpenID

Conformix Technologies, 2008

This is the first book written on the OpenID system and it provides comprehensive information to beginners and mid level programmers of OpenID. The book includes topics like: o Introduction to identity management o Creating OpenID identities o Using OpenID to login to web sites o Understanding the OpenID protocol o Structure of OpenID messages o...

Digital Forensics for Network, Internet, and Cloud Computing: A Forensic Evidence Guide for Moving Targets and Data

Syngress Publishing, 2010

Network forensics is an evolution of typical digital forensics, where evidence is gathered and analyzed from network traffic. This book will help security and network forensics professionals, as well as network administrators, understand the challenges faced by organizations and individuals investigating network-based criminal cases. The...

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Penetration testers are faced with a combination of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, host-based protection, hardened systems, and teams of knowledgeable analysts that pour over data collected by their security information management systems. In an environment such as this, simply running automated tools will typically...

Anti-Hacker Tool Kit, Fourth Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2014

Defend against today's most devious attacks

Fully revised to include cutting-edge new tools for your security arsenal, Anti-Hacker Tool Kit, Fourth Edition reveals how to protect your network from a wide range of nefarious exploits. You'll get detailed explanations of each tool’s function along with best...

Cyber Operations: Building, Defending, and Attacking Modern Computer Networks

Apress, 2019

Know how to set up, defend, and attack computer networks with this revised and expanded second edition.

You will learn to configure your network from the ground up, beginning with developing your own private virtual test environment, then setting up your own DNS server and AD infrastructure. You will continue with more...

Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, Second Edition

Syngress Publishing, 2004

Snort, Information Security Magazine’s pick for Open Source Product of the year 2003, is one of the best examples of the IT community working together to build a capability. Please notice I did not say a tool, but rather, a capability. Snort’s extensible architecture and open source distribution has long made it an ideal choice...

Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization

Red Hat, 2001

Your Official Red Hat^® Linux^® Guide to Security and Optimization Reviewed and approved by the experts at Red Hat, this comprehensive guide delivers the know-how you need to improve the performance of your Red Hat Linux system—and protect it from attacks and break-ins. Red Hat Linux expert Mohammed Kabir starts by...

Ethereal Packet Sniffing

Syngress Publishing, 2004

Ethereal offers more protocol decoding and reassembly than any free sniffer out there and ranks well among the commercial tools. You’ve all used tools like tcpdump or windump to examine individual packets, but Ethereal makes it easier to make sense of a stream of ongoing network communications. Ethereal not only makes network...

Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Volume 2

Syngress Publishing, 2007

Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This second volume adds over 300 new pen testing...

Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master the 8 Layers of an Insecure Network

Syngress Publishing, 2006

This book looks at network security in a new and refreshing way. It guides readers step-by-step through the "stack" -- the seven layers of a network. Each chapter focuses on one layer of the stack along with the attacks, vulnerabilities, and exploits that can be found at that layer. The book even includes a chapter on the mythical...

Open Source Security Tools: Practical Guide to Security Applications, A

Prentice Hall, 2004

Few frontline system administrators can afford to spend all day worrying about security. But in this age of widespread virus infections, worms, and digital attacks, no one can afford to neglect network defenses.

Written with the harried IT manager in mind, Open Source Security Tools is a practical,...

Intrusion Prevention and Active Response : Deploying Network and Host IPS

Syngress Publishing, 2005

From 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...

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