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Penetration Testing and Network Defense
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This book goes to great lengths to explain the various testing approaches
that are used today and gives excellent insight into how a responsible penetration
testing specialist executes his trade.
-Bruce Murphy, Vice President, World Wide Security Services, Cisco Systems
The practical guide to simulating, detecting, and responding to network attacks.
Penetration testing is a growing field but there has yet to be a definitive
resource that instructs ethical hackers on how to perform a penetration test
with the ethics and responsibilities of testing in mind. Penetration Testing
and Network Defense offers detailed steps on how to emulate an outside attacker
in order to assess the security of a network.
Unlike other books on hacking, this book is specifically geared towards penetration
testing. It includes important information about liability issues and ethics
as well as procedures and documentation. Using popular open-source and commercial
applications, the book shows you how to perform a penetration test on an organization's
network, from creating a test plan to performing social engineering and host
reconnaissance to performing simulated attacks on both wired and wireless networks.
Penetration Testing and Network Defense also goes a step further than other
books on hacking, as it demonstrates how to detect an attack on a live network.
By detailing the method of an attack and how to spot an attack on your network,
this book better prepares you to guard against hackers. You will learn how to
configure, record, and thwart these attacks and how to harden a system to protect
it against future internal and external attacks:
- Create step-by-step testing plans
- Learn to perform social engineering and host reconnaissance
- Evaluate session hijacking methods
- Exploit web server vulnerabilities
- Detect attempts to breach database security
- Use password crackers to obtain access information
- Circumvent Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and firewall protections and
disrupt the service of routers and switches
- Scan and penetrate wireless networks
- Understand the inner workings of Trojan Horses, viruses, and other backdoor
applications
- Test UNIX, Microsoft, and Novell servers for vulnerabilities
- Learn the root cause of buffer overflows and how to prevent them
- Perform and prevent Denial of Service attacks
Full of real-world examples and step-by-step procedures, this book is both
an enjoyable read and full of practical advice that will help you assess network
security and develop a plan for locking down sensitive data and company resources.
About the Authors
Andrew Whitaker, CCSP, is the Director of Enterprise InfoSec and Networking
for TechTrain, where he performs penetration tests and teaches ethical hacking
and Cisco courses. He has been working in the IT industry for more than 10 years,
specializing in Cisco and security technologies, and has performed penetration
tests for numerous financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
Daniel P. Newman, CISSP, CCSP, has been in the computer industry for over 12
years specializing in application programming, database design, and network
security for projects all over the world. He is the managing director and chief
security officer for Tribal Knowledge Security and specializes in penetration
testing and advanced technical training in Cisco, Microsoft, and Ethical Hacking
topics.
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