Special Ops - Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle

"Special Ops is an adrenaline-pumping tour of the most critical security weaknesses present on most any corporate network today..."
-Joel Scambray, Senior Director, Microsoft's MSN, and Co-Author, Hacking Exposed Fourth Edition, Windows 2000, and Web Hacking Editions
"Special Ops has brought some of the best speakers and researchers of computer security together to cover what you need to know to survive in today's net."
-Jeff Moss, President & CEO, Black Hat, Inc.
"Special Ops brings perspective from today's best computer security minds into a single, enormously informative book."
-Mike Schiffman, Director of Security Architecture, @stake, Inc., and Author of Building Open Source Network Security Tools and The Hacker's Challenge Series

Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle provides solutions for the impossible 24-hour IT work day. By now, most companies have hardened their perimeters and locked out the "bad guys," but what has been done on the inside? Have you considered the damage that could be done by recently laid-off or disgruntled employees, contractors and consultants, building security guards, cleaning staff, and of course the unsecured wireless network? This is the one book you need to defend the soft, chewy center of internal networks.

Contents

1. Assessing Internal Network Security
2. Inventory and Exposure of Corporate Assets
3. Hunting for High Severity Vulnerabilities (HSV)
4. Attacking and Defending Windows XP Professional
5. Attacking and Defending Windows 2000
6. Securing Active Directory
7. Securing Exchange and Outlook Web Access
8. Attacking and Defending DNS
9. Attacking and Defending Microsoft Terminal Services
10. Securing IIS
11. Hacking Custom Web Applications
12. Attacking and Defending Microsoft SQL Server
13. Attacking and Defending Oracle
14. Attacking and Defending Unix
15. Wireless LANs: Discovery and Defense
16. Network Architecture
17. Architecting the Human Factor
18. Creating Effective Corporate Security Policies