Special OPS: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, Unix and Oracle

Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure9780072192629, 0072192623, 0072227427, 0782125050, 0782127975

“Special Ops is an adrenaline-pumping tour of the most critical security weaknesses present on most any corporate network today…-Joel Scambray, Senior Director, Microsoft’s MSN, and Co-Author, Hacking Exposed Fourth Edition, Windows 2000, and Web Hacking Editions”Special Ops has brought some of the best speakers and researchers of computer security together to cover what you need to know to survive in today’s net.-Jeff Moss, President & CEO, Black Hat, Inc.Special Ops brings perspective from today’s best computer security minds into a single, enormously informative book. -Mike Schiffman, Director of Security Architecture, @stake, Inc., and Author of Building Open Source Network Security Tools and The Hacker’s Challenge SeriesSpecial Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle provides solutions for the impossible 24-hour IT work day. By now, most companies have hardened their perimeters and locked out the “bad guys,” but what has been done on the inside? Have you considered the damage that could be done by recently laid-off or disgruntled employees, contractors and consultants, building security guards, cleaning staff, and of course the unsecured wireless network? This is the one book you need to defend the soft, chewy center of internal networks.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 14
1 – Assessing Internal Network Security……Page 26
2 – Inventory and Exposure of Corporate Assets……Page 46
3 – Hunting for High Severity Vulnerabilities (HSV)……Page 74
4 – Attacking and Defending Windows XP Professional……Page 110
5 – Attacking and Defending Windows 2000……Page 196
6 – Securing Active Directory……Page 268
7 – Securing Exchange and Outlook Web Access……Page 328
8 – Attacking and Defending DNS……Page 418
9 – Attacking and Defending Microsoft Terminal Services……Page 478
10 – Securing IIS……Page 536
11 – Hacking Custom Web Applications……Page 596
12 – Attacking and Defending Microsoft SQL Server……Page 644
13 – Attacking and Defending Oracle……Page 706
14 – Attacking and Defending Unix……Page 754
15 – Wireless LANs: Discovery and Defense……Page 808
16 – Network Architecture……Page 850
17 – Architecting the Human Factor……Page 910
18 – Creating Effective Corporate Security Policies……Page 962
Index……Page 1028