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Overview
E-Business is on the rise, but so are the likelihood and severity of computer attacks. Melissa, the Love Bug, Nimda, and Reezak all caught the e-Business community off guard, costing billions of dollars in lost productivity and damage. Maintaining enterprise security is now, without question, a crucial aspect of doing business in today's Internet-based economy.
Enterprise Security: The Manager's Defense Guide is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art handbook for harnessing e-Business security. It examines the most recent attack strategies and offers specific techniques for combating attempts at data infiltration, destruction, and denial-of-service attacks. Understanding that security must be incorporated within multiple levels of e-Business technology and practice, the author presents measures for securing your system platform, applications, operating environment, processes, and communication links. He explains how the traditional security technologies of firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) can be integrated with risk management, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection, and content management for a comprehensive security plan.
You will find in-depth coverage of such topics as:
- The goals and sophisticated tools of today's hackers
- The advantages and shortcomings of firewalls and VPNs
- Incorporating security into application development
- TCP/IP attacks, including SYN Flood and Land attacks
- Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
- ICMP directed broadcast and Smurf bandwidth attacks
- The Bubble Boy virus
- JavaScript attacks
- Adding TCP Wrappers and security in layers
- Guidelines for vulnerability assessment and risk management
Several informative appendixes enumerate the top twenty enterprise vulnerabilities, provide an incident response form, discuss how to harden the often targeted Windows 2000 operating system, and examine denial-of-service attacks in depth.
Featuring the latest in attack technology and defenses, this book is an invaluable resource for IT managers and professionals who must remain a step ahead of the enemy in the ongoing security arms race.
Synopsis
With the rise of eBusiness, the number and destructiveness of network attacks have increased. Melissa, the Love Bug, Nimda, and Reezak all caught the eBusiness community unprepared, costing billions of dollars in lost productivity and damage. Maintaining enterprise security is now, without question, a crucial aspect of doing business in today's Internet-based economy.
Enterprise Security is a comprehensive handbook on the state-of-the-art in eBusiness security. It examines the most recent attack strategies and offers specific technologies and techniques for combating attempts at data infiltration, destruction, and denial of service attacks. Taking the view that security must be incorporated within multiple levels of eBusiness technology and practice, the book presents measures for securing your system platform, applications, operating environment, processes, and communication links. It shows how the traditional security technologies of firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) can be integrated with risk management, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection, and content management for a comprehensive approach to security.
You will find in-depth coverage of such topics as:
- The goals and sophisticated tools of today's hackers
- The advantages and shortcomings of firewalls and VPNs
- Incorporating security into application development
- Attacks against TCP/IP, including SYN Flood and Land attacks
- Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and strategies to combat them
- ICMP directed broadcast and Smurf bandwidth attacks
- The Bubble Boy virus
- JavaScript attacks
- AddTCP Wrappers and security in layers
- Guidelines for vulnerability assessment and risk management
Several informative appendices enumerate the top 20 enterprise vulnerabilities, provide an incident response form, discuss how to harden the often-targeted Windows 2000 operating system, and examine denial of service attacks in-depth.
Featuring the latest in attack technology and defenses, this book is an invaluable resource for IT managers and professionals who must remain a step ahead of the enemy in the ongoing security arms race.
Author Biography:
David Leon Clark has over twenty years of experience in information technology systems and solutions and is currently the program manager responsible for the Information Assurance practice of Acton Burnell, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Clark provides advice, support, and life cycle security consulting to federal and commercial clients. He designed the core curriculum for the Information Security Management (ISM) course of study, a graduate level program for the University of Virginia's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. A professional writer on high-tech topics, he is the author of IT Manager's Guide to Virtual Private Networks, along with numerous technology white papers and marketing literature.
Booknews
Identifies the tools and weapons that hackers use to exploit e- business vulnerabilities, and offers techniques for combating attempts at data infiltration, script, backdoor, and denial-of-service attacks. The author stresses the importance of writing a security policy and emergency response plan, and suggests measures for hardening the router and operating system, deploying firewalls, and detecting intruders. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR