Silence on the Wire – A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks - Softcover

Zalewski, Michal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593270461 ISBN 13: 9781593270469

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2005

Synopsis

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learnmore about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wireuncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them,as well as better understand and monitor their systems.

Silence on the Wire dissects several unique and fascinating security andprivacy problems associated with the technologies and protocols used in everydaycomputing, and shows how to use this knowledge to learn more about others or tobetter defend systems. By taking an indepth look at modern computing, from hardwareon up, the book helps the system administrator to better understand security issues,and to approach networking from a new, more creative perspective. The sys admin canapply this knowledge to network monitoring, policy enforcement, evidence analysis,IDS, honeypots, firewalls, and forensics.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 282 in Publisher: On NO STARCH PRESS There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information or learn more about the sender as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them. as

Synopsis

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learn more about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them, as well as better understand and monitor their systems. Silence on the Wire dissects several unique and fascinating security and privacy problems associated with the technologies and protocols used in everyday computing, and shows how to use this knowledge to learn more about others or to better defend systems. By taking an indepth look at modern computing, from hardware on up, the book helps the system administrator to better understand security issues, and to approach networking from a new, more creative perspective. The sys admin can apply this knowledge to network monitoring, policy enforcement, evidence analysis, IDS, honeypots, firewalls, and forensics.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593270461
• ISBN 13: 9781593270469
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312