Hands-On Network Forensics: Investigate network attacks and find evidence using common network forensic tools - Softcover

Jaswal, Nipun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789344522 ISBN 13: 9781789344523

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Gain basic skills in network forensics and learn how to apply them effectively

Key Features

• Investigate network threats with ease
• Practice forensics tasks such as intrusion detection, network analysis, and scanning
• Learn forensics investigation at the network level

Book Description

Network forensics is a subset of digital forensics that deals with network attacks and their investigation. In the era of network attacks and malware threat, it's now more important than ever to have skills to investigate network attacks and vulnerabilities.

Hands-On Network Forensics starts with the core concepts within network forensics, including coding, networking, forensics tools, and methodologies for forensic investigations. You'll then explore the tools used for network forensics, followed by understanding how to apply those tools to a PCAP file and write the accompanying report. In addition to this, you will understand how statistical flow analysis, network enumeration, tunneling and encryption, and malware detection can be used to investigate your network. Towards the end of this book, you will discover how network correlation works and how to bring all the information from different types of network devices together.

By the end of this book, you will have gained hands-on experience of performing forensics analysis tasks.

What you will learn

• Discover and interpret encrypted traffic
• Learn about various protocols
• Understand the malware language over wire
• Gain insights into the most widely used malware
• Correlate data collected from attacks
• Develop tools and custom scripts for network forensics automation

About this title

About the Author

Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789344522
• ISBN 13: 9781789344523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358