Press Release
October 31, 2006
Network Security Hacks, Second Edition: Keeping Information Corralled and Virtual Predators Out
Sebastopol, CA--Most days, modern ranchers hop into their pickups or on
their horses and ride their fences. They're checking for breaks. Sturdy
fencing not only prevents cattle or sheep from escaping but also protects
them from predators. Indeed, ranchers' daily battles against the forces of
nature have turned them into hackers. They'll grab what's handy--old
nails, scraps of wire, discarded boards, rocks, even rip the shirts off
their backs--to plug holes.
Of course, a durable network of gates, chutes, and corrals helps cowboys
(or cowgirls) hustle the herds safely from one pasture to the next or down
to the barn for branding or shearing.
Unlike modern cowboys, network security administrators don't need horses,
barbed wire, and lassos to maintain security on their virtual range. Yet
their jobs of maintaining security and protecting their brands against
virtual predators--"black hat" hackers and crackers--are similar. They
labor to maintain secure communications and information flow over a vast
and untrustworthy virtual range--the Internet. And while theoretical
solutions look good on paper and make for terrific school projects,
tracking virtual interlopers in real world markets requires "quick and
dirty" solutions--hacks.
Since the first edition of Network Security Hacks appeared two years
ago, network security techniques and tools have evolved rapidly to meet
increasingly sophisticated threats. With this great new second edition,
author Andrew Lockhart provides thoroughly updated, up-to-the-minute
solution-based hacks for Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X servers
that not only enable readers to secure TCP/IP-based services, but helps
them implement a good deal of clever host-based security techniques as
well.
With Network Security Hacks (O'Reilly, US $29.99), readers get 125
concise, practical, industrial-strength hacks to learn how to:
- Use Snort in high performance environments with Barnyard
- Harden Linux, BSD, and Windows hosts against attack
- Detect, respond to, and recover from inevitable system compromises
- Set up virtual networks (honeypots) to divert and confuse attackers
Aimed at intermediate to advanced network administrators, "Network
Security Hacks" provides a virtual pocketful of ready-to-grab solutions to
everyday and unexpected networking problems. To paraphrase the late poet
Robert Frost, "good fences make good neighbors, but a break requires a
hack or two." With this invaluable book, security administrators get the
reconnaissance tools quick fixes they need for maintaining security along
every virtual fenceline.
Additional Resources:
Network Security Hacks, Second Edition
Andrew Lockhart
ISBN: 0-596-52763-2, 455 pages, $29.99 US, $38.99 CA
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