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Network Performance and Security
Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools
This definitive source offers software engineers practical tips and tricks needed to strengthen IT infrastructure using low cost open source tools.
Chris Chapman (Author)
9780128035849, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 9 March 2016
380 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.4 cm, 0.77 kg
Network Performance Security: Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools gives mid-level IT engineers the practical tips and tricks they need to use the best open source or low cost tools available to harden their IT infrastructure. The book details how to use the tools and how to interpret them. Network Performance Security: Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools begins with an overview of best practices for testing security and performance across devices and the network. It then shows how to document assets—such as servers, switches, hypervisor hosts, routers, and firewalls—using publicly available tools for network inventory. The book explores security zoning the network, with an emphasis on isolated entry points for various classes of access. It shows how to use open source tools to test network configurations for malware attacks, DDoS, botnet, rootkit and worm attacks, and concludes with tactics on how to prepare and execute a mediation schedule of the who, what, where, when, and how, when an attack hits. Network security is a requirement for any modern IT infrastructure. Using Network Performance Security: Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools makes the network stronger by using a layered approach of practical advice and good testing practices.
Introduction: Practical Security and Performance Testing Ch. 1: Getting organized: Asset Inventory; knowing what you have Ch. 2: Locking down Access: Internet, Wi-Fi, Wired Zones, and VPN Ch. 3: Securing BYOD device access Ch. 4: Hardening the Server Ch. 5: Internal Security Threats and defending assets and zones Ch. 6: How to test the Firewall and IPS/IDS Effectively Ch. 7: Security Device Deployment Patterns Ch. 8: Continuous Testing Ch. 9: Defending against penetration attacks Ch. 10: How to write and test a Request for Proposal Ch. 11: Security "Fire drills" Glossary
Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Computer security [UR]