Windows .NET Server Security Handbook - Softcover

Peikari, Cyrus; Fogie, Seth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130477265 ISBN 13: 9780130477262

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

This book is designed to provide you with the best guide to securing your Windows XP network. To that end we have packed the book with extra value. The book provides step-by-step instructions for locking down your Windows XP servers. Explains how to set up secure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Windows .NET Security: step-by-step techniques and fast answers.

• The practical, start-to-finish guide to Windows .NET security
• New Windows .NET security features: Location-Aware Firewalling, Offline File Encryption, and more
• Locking down .NET servers and XP clients-step by step
• Securing new Windows .NET features: Raw Sockets, Remote Desktop, Remote Assistance, and more
• Anticipating future threats-including threats to 802.1x wireless networks

Windows .NET Server Security Handbook is your practical, step-by-step guide to maximizing Windows .NET security. Two leading experts show you how to take advantage of every important new Windows .NET and XP security feature, from .NET's new firewall to its updated Encrypting File System. You'll discover the critical security implications of new features such as Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance, then learn how to use Microsoft(r)'s latest tools to configure security in a wide range of scenarios. By the time you're finished, you'll know how to lock down any Windows .NET system-from the largest enterprise to the smallest home network.

• The Internet Connection Firewall: configuration, adding programs, logging, ICMP, and more
• Windows .NET raw sockets: the reality-and what you should do about it
• Anticipating emerging threats, including wireless 802.11 hacking and "War Driving"
• Windows .NET Security Toolset: using the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in, Secedit.exe, Security Templates, and more
• Configuring Windows .NET VPNs, PKI, and Smart Cards
• Kerberos: server authentication, policies, security environments, and interoperability issues
• Securing Microsoft IIS Web services in Windows .NET environments
• Understanding the core security architecture Microsoft's .NET platform is built upon
• Discovering new security holes fast: how you can beat BugTraq by seven days!

About the CD-ROM

Powerful library of Windows .NET security tools!

• VirusMD Personal Firewall 3.0: diagnose and treat Trojan horse infections
• eEye RetinaTM network security scanner (demo): scan your network for vulnerabilities
• eEye SecureIIS application firewall (demo): Maximize app-layer security
• eEye IrisTM sniffer (demo): Perform advanced protocol analysis
• LC3 password testing: Audit NT/Win2K user passwords
• MIRC, MultiProxy, and Socks2HTTP: perform anonymous counterintelligence against hackers
• NetStumbler wireless security tester: scan wireless networks for security flaws

Synopsis:

Windows XP Security Handbook is the complete, practical, step-by-step guide to maximizing Windows XP security. In this book, two leading experts show how to take advantage of every important new Windows XP security feature, from XP's new firewall to its updated Encrypting File System. They review the critical security implications of new features such as raw sockets and Remote Desktop, then demonstrate how to use Microsoft's latest tools to configure security in a wide range of scenarios, and to lock down any Windows XP system -- Professional or Home. Dr. Cyrus Peikari and Seth Fogie present in-depth coverage of utilizing Microsoft's new Internet Connection Firewall; securing Microsoft IIS Web services in Windows XP environments; configuring Windows XP VPNs, PKI, and Smart Cards; and much more. Along the way, they show how to make the most of Microsoft's new security toolset, including the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in, Secedit.exe, and Security Templates. They illuminates the core security architecture Microsoft's .NET platform is built upon, and offer a practical strategy for staying ahead of newly-identified security problems, both current and future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130477265
• ISBN 13: 9780130477262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368