How to Cheat at Securing Your Network

Most System Administrators are not security specialists. Keeping the network secure, it is not a priority until disaster strikes. How to Cheat at Securing Your Network is the perfect book for this audience. The book takes a huge amount of information on the security and distillation system, using real-world, step-by-step instruction.

The latest addition to the bestselling "How to Cheat ..." series of IT handbooks, including book access, remote access, messaging, wireless hacking, media, email threats, storage devices , and web applications. Solutions are provided for each type of threat, with emphasis on intrusion detection, prevention, and disaster recovery.

. Get an Introduction to AAA
See how AAA is made up of three distinctive interdependent parts: access control, authentication, and auditing.
. Understand the Types of Attacks
Learn about active attacks: network-based, application-based, and mixed threat, as well as passive attacks, password attacks, and code attacks.
. Address Remote Access Problems
Technologies such as RAS servers, NAS, VPN, authentication servers like RADIUS, TACACS, and TACACS +, and others were designed to address the RAS problems.
. Review Wireless Technologies
Understand WAP and IEEE 802/11 WLAN wireless security methods.
. Web Servers are Critical Network Components
Make sure that they are on the Web.
. Know the Differences Between Device-Based and Media-Based Security
See how wireless, modems, RAS, PBXs, and VPNs allow remote access to a computer or network.
. See the Concepts and Processes of OS and NOS Hardening
Track, evaluate, and install the appropriate OS patches, updates, service packs, and hotfixes in your system environment.
. Understand the Basics of Cryptography
See how confidentiality, integrity, and authentication will help you.
. See the Components of a PKI System
Lean how CAs maintain and issue digital certificates, RAs handle the verification process, and more.