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Get to grips with network-based attacks and learn to defend your organization's network and network devices

Key Features

  • Exploit vulnerabilities and use custom modules and scripts to crack authentication protocols
  • Safeguard against web, mail, database, DNS, voice, video, and collaboration server attacks
  • Monitor and protect against brute-force attacks by implementing defense mechanisms

Book Description

With the increased demand for computer systems and the ever-evolving internet, network security now plays an even bigger role in securing IT infrastructures against attacks. Equipped with the knowledge of how to find vulnerabilities and infiltrate organizations through their networks, you'll be able to think like a hacker and safeguard your organization's network and networking devices. Network Protocols for Security Professionals will show you how.

This comprehensive guide gradually increases in complexity, taking you from the basics to advanced concepts. Starting with the structure of data network protocols, devices, and breaches, you'll become familiar with attacking tools and scripts that take advantage of these breaches. Once you've covered the basics, you'll learn about attacks that target networks and network devices. Your learning journey will get more exciting as you perform eavesdropping, learn data analysis, and use behavior analysis for network forensics. As you progress, you'll develop a thorough understanding of network protocols and how to use methods and tools you learned in the previous parts to attack and protect these protocols.

By the end of this network security book, you'll be well versed in network protocol security and security countermeasures to protect network protocols.

What you will learn

  • Understand security breaches, weaknesses, and protection techniques
  • Attack and defend wired as well as wireless networks
  • Discover how to attack and defend LAN-, IP-, and TCP/UDP-based vulnerabilities
  • Focus on encryption, authorization, and authentication principles
  • Gain insights into implementing security protocols the right way
  • Use tools and scripts to perform attacks on network devices
  • Wield Python, PyShark, and other scripting tools for packet analysis
  • Identify attacks on web servers to secure web and email services

Who this book is for

This book is for red team and blue team pentesters, security professionals, or bug hunters. Anyone involved in network protocol management and security will also benefit from this book. Basic experience in network security will be an added advantage.

Table of Contents

  1. Network Protocols for Security Professionals
  2. Contributors
  3. About the authors
  4. About the reviewers
  5. Preface
  6. Part 1: Protecting the Network – Technologies, Protocols, Vulnerabilities, and Tools
  7. Chapter 1: Data Centers and the Enterprise Network Architecture and its Components
  8. Chapter 2: Network Protocol Structures and Operations
  9. Chapter 3: Security Protocols and Their Implementation
  10. Chapter 4: Using Network Security Tools, Scripts, and Code
  11. Chapter 5: Finding Protocol Vulnerabilities
  12. Part 2: Network, Network Devices, and Traffic Analysis-Based Attacks
  13. Chapter 6: Finding Network-Based Attacks
  14. Chapter 7: Detecting Device-Based Attacks
  15. Chapter 8: Network Traffic Analysis and Eavesdropping
  16. Chapter 9: Using Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection
  17. Part 3: Network Protocols – How to Attack and How to Protect
  18. Chapter 10: Discovering LAN, IP, and TCP/UDP-Based Attacks
  19. Chapter 11: Implementing Wireless Network Security
  20. Chapter 12: Attacking Routing Protocols
  21. Chapter 13: DNS Security
  22. Chapter 14: Securing Web and Email Services
  23. Chapter 15: Enterprise Applications Security – Databases and Filesystems
  24. Chapter 16: IP Telephony and Collaboration Services Security
  25. Assessments
  26. Index
  27. Other Books You May Enjoy