Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, 4th edition - Softcover

Mcclure, Stuart; Scambray, Joel; Kurtz, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072227427 ISBN 13: 9780072227420

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

“The seminal book on white-hat hacking and countermeasures.... Should be required reading for anyone with a server or a network to secure.” --Bill Machrone, PC Magazine

This brand-new edition of the best-selling security book covers all the latest hacks and countermeasures and includes a bonus DVD with the authors’ famous “Hacking Exposed Live” presentation!

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About the Authors

Stuart McClure, CNE, CCSE, Global CTO for McAfee/Intel, is responsible for a nearly $3B consumer and corporate security products business. During his tenure at McAfee, Stuart has also held the General Manager position for the Security Management Business for McAfee/Intel, which enabled all McAfee corporate security products to be operationalized, managed, and measured. Alongside those roles, Stuart has also run an elite team of good guy hackers inside McAfee called TRACE that discovered new vulnerabilities and emerging threats. Previously, Stuart helped run security at the largest healthcare company in the U.S., Kaiser Permanente. In 1999, Stuart was also the original founder of Foundstone, Inc., a global consulting and products company, which was acquired by McAfee in 2004. Stuart is the lead author and original founder of the Hacking Exposed series of books and has been hacking for the good guys for over 25 years. Widely recognized and asked to present his extensive and in-depth knowledge of hacking and exploitation techniques, Stuart is considered one of the industrys leading authorities on information security risk today. A well-published and acclaimed security visionary, McClure brings a wealth of technical and executive leadership with a profound understanding of both the threat landscape and the operational and financial risk requirements to be successful in todays world. Stuart is often quoted in most all mainstream news outlets.

Joel Scambray, CISSP, is Managing Principal with Citigal as well as Co-Founder of Consciere LLC. He was previously chief strategy officer for Leviathan Security Group. He has assisted companies ranging from newly minted startups to members of the Fortune 50 in addressing information security challenges and opportunities for over a dozen years. Joel's background includes roles as an executive, technical consultant, and entrepreneur. He was a senior director at Microsoft Corporation, where he led Microsoft's online services security efforts for three years before joining the Windows platform and services division to focus on security technology architecture. Joel also co-founded security software and services startup Foundstone, Inc. He has also held positions as a Manager for Ernst & Young, Chief Strategy Officer for Leviathan, security columnist for Microsoft TechNet, Editor at Large for InfoWorld Magazine, and director of IT for a major commercial real estate firm. Joel has spoken widely on information security at forums including Black Hat, I-4, and The Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), as well as organizations including CERT, CSI, ISSA, ISACA, SANS, private corporations, and government agencies such as the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), FBI, and the RCMP. Joel Scambray is the co-author of all 6 editions of Hacking Exposed. He is also the lead author of Hacking Exposed Windows and Hacking Exposed Web Applications.

George Kurtz is co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge big data security technology company focused on helping enterprises and governments protect their most sensitive intellectual property and national security information. George Kurtz is also an internationally recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. He has almost twenty years of experience in the security space and has helped hundreds of large organizations and government agencies around the world tackle the most demanding security problems. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies has enabled him to drive innovation throughout his career by identifying market trends and correlating them with customer feedback, resulting in rapid growth for the businesses he has run. In 2011 George relinquished his role as McAfees Worldwide Chief Technology Officer to his co-author and raised $26M in venture capital to create CrowdStrike. During his tenure as McAfees CTO, Kurtz was responsible for driving the integrated security architectures and platforms across the entire McAfee portfolio. Kurtz also helped drive the acquisition strategy that allowed McAfee to grow from $1b in revenue in 2007 to over $2.5b in 2011. In one of the largest tech M&A deals in 2011, Intel (INTC) acquired McAfee for nearly $8b. Prior to joining McAfee, Kurtz was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Foundstone, Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in October 2004. You can follow George on Twitter @george_kurtz or his blog at http://www.securitybattlefield.com.

From the Back Cover

"The seminal book on white-hat hacking and countermeasures.... Should be required reading for anyone with a server or a network to secure." Bill Machrone, PC Magazine

"Reading this book is better than hiring those Sneakers guys to break into your network to tell you where the open doors are, and it doesn't cost nearly as much." Professional Certification magazine

"A great practical guide for administrators and an eminently readable expose on hacking that should smooth the way for sensible executive policies to protect corporate networks." Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek

"Will tell you more about what hackers have done and can and can't do than anything else I have seen....Chock full of tips on countermeasures and just plain usability tricks. Recommended." Jerry Pournelle, BYTE Magazine

"For almost any computer book, you can find a clone. But not this one.... A one-of-a-kind study of the art of breaking in." UNIX Review

New and Updated Material:

-Each part opens with a brand new case study based on real security scenarios
-Brand new chapter covers the latest 802.11 Wireless networking security attacks and countermeasures
-New strategies for proactively defending against dial-up, PBX, voicemail, and VPN hacks
-Completely rewritten enumeration chapter including new SQL Server discovery tools, Windows XP/.NET Server countermeasures, Novell exploits, and network discovery using BGP
-New techniques for gaining unauthorized access to Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP, Novell 6, UNIX, and Linux
-Up-to-date countermeasures for preventing the exploitation of proxy and packet filtering firewall vulnerabilities
-Web hacking chapter completely revised and updated to cover the latest platform-specific vulnerabilities from Apache to IIS, current techniques including cross-site scripting, fuzzing, and SQL injection attacks, and all of the latest tools from Achilles to Nikto

Hacking Exposed Live! video presentation on DVD

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072227427
• ISBN 13: 9780072227420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 784