Network performance and security : testing and analyzing using open source and low-cost tools / Chris Chapman ; Steve Furnell, technical editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Chris, author.

Contributor:

Furnell, Steven, 1970- editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Telecommunication systems--Security measures.

Telecommunication systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Syngress, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Offers coherent, consistent guidance for those tasked with securing the network within an organization and ensuring that it is appropriately tested Focuses on practical, real world implementation and testing Employs a vetted "security testing by example" style to demonstrate best practices and minimize false positive testing Gives practical advice for securing BYOD devices on the network, how to test and defend against internal threats, and how to continuously validate a firewall device, software, and configuration Provides analysis in addition to step by step methodologies

Contents:

Introduction to practical security and performance testing

Getting organized with initial audit of tnetworkwrk

Locking down the infrastructure: internet, wi-fi, wired, VPN, WAN, and the core

Locking down and optimizing the Windows client

Server patterns

Testing for security flaws using penetration testing

Using Wireshark and TCP Dump to visualize traffic

Using SNORT

Live traffic analytics using "security onion"

Traffic performance testing in the network

Build your own network elements

Request for proposal and proof of concept example usecases.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780128036013

012803601X

OCLC:

956735851