Gregg, Michael

Build your own security lab : a field guide for network testing / Michael Gregg. - Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, c2008. - xxvi,428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.

Includes index.

Hardware and Gear -- Building a Software Test Platform -- Passive Information Gathering -- Detecting Live Systems -- Enumerating Systems -- Automated Attack and Penetration Tools -- Understanding Cryptographic Systems -- Defeating Malware -- Securing Wireless Systems -- Intrusion Detection -- Forensic Detection -- Appendix A About the DVD -- Index.

Many books tell you what to do. This one tells you how.

If your job is to design or implement IT security solutions, or if you're studying for any security certification, this is the how-to guide you've been looking for. Here's how to assess your needs, gather the tools, and create a controlled environment in which you can experiment, test, and develop the solutions that work. With liberal examples from real-world scenarios, it tells you exactly how to implement a strategy to secure your systems now and in the future.

Collect the necessary hardware and software and assemble your own network lab

Configure a bootable Linux CD

Explore various methods for gathering information about existing security

Identify automated attack and penetration tools

Understand cryptographic systems and encryption and authentication attacks

Learn to find, identify, and defeat malware

Address the special protection needs of wireless systems

Use Snort(R) to build an IDS that will help to detect and identify attacks in real time

DVD includes tools for actually building and implementing security solutions

Open source tools

Demo software

A bootable version of Linux

ISBN: 9780470179864 (paper/DVD)

LCCN: 2008009610

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computer networks -- Security measures -- Testing.

Dewey Class. No.: 005.8