Maximum Security

Maximum Security, Fourth Edition provides updated, comprehensive, platform-by-platform coverage of security issues, and includes clear, to the point descriptions of the most common techniques hackers use to penetrate systems.
This book provides information for security administrators and others interested in computer and network security and provides them with techniques to take steps to protect their systems.

Contents

Part I Security Concepts

• Building a Roadmap for Securing Your Enterprise
• The State of the Net: A World at War
• Hackers and Crackers
• Mining the Data Monster
• Internal Security

Part II Hacking 101

• A Brief TCP/IP Primer
• Spoofing Attacks
• Personal Privacy
• Dispelling Some of the Myths

Part III A Defender's Toolkit

• Firewalls
• Vulnerability Assessment Tools (Scanners)
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Logging Tools
• Password Security
• Sniffers

Part IV Weapons of Mass Destruction

• Denial-of-Service Tools
• Viruses and Worms
• Trojans