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Network Security Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Paperback)

by Andrew Lockhart (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (26 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596006438
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596006433
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 568,365 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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To the uninitiated, the title may seem like an oxymoron: after all, aren't hacks what network security is supposed to prevent? But if you're network administrator, this book's title not only makes sense; it makes a lot of sense. You know that a busy administrator needs a hatful of devilishly effective security hacks to keep your 12-hour days from becoming all-nighters. Network Security Hacks is not a long-winded treatise on security theory. Instead, this information packed little book provides 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure today. This compendium of security hacks doesn't just cover securing TCP/IP-based services, but also provides intelligent host-based security techniques. Loaded with concise but powerful examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending, and incident response, Network Security Hacks will demonstrate effective methods for defending your servers and networks from a variety of devious and subtle attacks. Network Security Hacks show how to detect the presence (and track every keystroke) of network intruders, methods for protecting your network and data using strong encryption, and even techniques for laying traps for would-be system crackers. Important security tools are presented, as well as clever methods for using them to reveal real, timely, useful information about what is happening on your network. O'Reilly's Hacks Series reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys--innovators who use their ingenuity to solve interesting problems, explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, and create useful tools. Network Security Hacks lives up to reputation the Hacks series has earned by providing the "roll-up-your sleeves and get-it-done" hacks that most network security tomes don't offer. Every hack can be read in just a few minutes but will save hours of searching for the right answer. Using just one of these amazing hacks will make this slim book's price seem like a remarkable deal. The other 99 make Network Security Hacks absolutely invaluable.


From the Publisher

The new edition of Network Security Hacks offers 100 concise
and practical hacks, including more information for Windows administrators,
hacks for wireless networking (such as setting up a captive portal and
securing against rogue hotspots), and techniques to ensure privacy and
anonymity, including ways to evade network traffic analysis, encrypt email
and files, and protect against phishing attacks. System administrators
looking for reliable answers will also find concise examples of applied
encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending and incident response --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Is this for you?, 10 Jun 2009
By Siraj A. Shaikh (Swindon, Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Network Security Hack is a collection of short practical articles covering a variety of useful tools and tips ranging from running services in a sandbox to configuring packet filters using PF. Each hack motivates the reader by clarifying the problem at hand followed by a step-by-step guide to solving it.

The collection comes together as a somewhat handy book, especially for security administrators working in the practical field.

Lockhart and the contributors cover a wide range of topics for hardening host platforms (both Unix and Windows), securing wireless networks and configuring host and network intrusion detection, amongst others.

Illustrated with code examples and screenshots, a number of configurations and (mostly open source) tools are introduced and reviewed; some, such as Snort, are covered in more detail than others.

The book presents an interesting structure: individual topics are covered with each hack placed in a purposeful sequence to enable the reader to delve into one thing at a time. This provides a useful breadth of the topic without losing the readers' interest.

Chapter 8 for instance helps with installing a Syslog server, filtering logs to different files, setting it up similarly on a windows platform, followed by summarising and aggregating logs from remote sites. By the end of it, one is able to gain a good practical overview of event logging and auditing.

Readers new to the field and eager to learn may not be able to fully appreciate underlying concepts often necessary to grasp before scanning for vulnerabilities with Nessus for example, or rewriting rules for Snort. For those with a head start, the book fails to cover anything new; readers looking for innovative approaches or new tools may be disappointed.

This book provides good value for money, especially for the wide range of topics it covers, and essentially provides a hands-on technical resource for readers working with systems and network security. Though often assuming a prior basic understanding of the area, the language used is clear and practical. For those who are keen to quickly get down and dirty with tools, this is the book for you.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide to securing a network, 22 May 2009
By N. Williams (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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I found the information in this guide very useful. Some bits of it I was already aware of but the vast majority was new and interesting.

I tried out one or two of the hacks at home and found they told me a lot about my system I didn't know (issues now fixed I might add).

I also used one or two of them in work, which initially scared my boss when he saw the title of the book but when he saw the results he was extremely impressed. We now have a better network, so I earned a few 'brownie points' there :).

I really think this is an excellent guide to network security and I'm sure you'll learn something you didn't already know from it.
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