Security Power Tools

Book Details
Paperback: 864 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780596009632
ISBN-13: 978-0596009632
Format: PDF

Book Description:
What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers 
in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power 
Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks’ Security 
Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push 
the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available 
using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix platforms.

Designed to be browsed, Security Power Tools offers you multiple approaches to 
network security via 23 cross-referenced chapters that review the best 
security tools on the planet for both black hat techniques and white hat 
defense tactics. It’s a must-have reference for network administrators, 
engineers and consultants with tips, tricks, and how-to advice for an 
assortment of freeware and commercial tools, ranging from intermediate level 
command-line operations to advanced programming of self-hiding exploits.

Security Power Tools details best practices for:

Reconnaissance — including tools for network scanning such as nmap; 
vulnerability scanning tools for Windows and Linux; LAN reconnaissance; tools 
to help with wireless reconnaissance; and custom packet generation
Penetration — such as the Metasploit framework for automated penetration of 
remote computers; tools to find wireless networks; exploitation framework 
applications; and tricks and tools to manipulate shellcodes
Control — including the configuration of several tools for use as backdoors; 
and a review of known rootkits for Windows and Linux
Defense — including host-based firewalls; host hardening for Windows and Linux 
networks; communication security with ssh; email security and anti-malware; 
and device security testing

Monitoring — such as tools to capture, and analyze packets; network monitoring 
with Honeyd and snort; and host monitoring of production servers for file 
changes

Discovery — including The Forensic Toolkit, SysInternals and other popular 
forensic tools; application fuzzer and fuzzing techniques; and the art of 
binary reverse engineering using tools like Interactive Disassembler and 
Ollydbg

A practical and timely network security ethics chapter written by a Stanford 
University professor of law completes the suite of topics and makes this book 
a goldmine of security information. Save yourself a ton of headaches and be 
prepared for any network security dilemma with Security Power Tools.