E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Web PDF
Caswell / Beale / Ramirez Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-08-048942-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Customizing Open Source Security Applications
E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-0-08-048942-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book will cover customizing Snort to perform intrusion detection and prevention, Nessus to analyze the network layer for vulnerabilities, and Ethereal to sniff their network for malicious or unusual traffic. The book will also contain an appendix detailing the best of the rest open source security tools. Each of these tools is intentionally designed to be highly customizable so that users can torque the programs to suit their particular needs. Users can code their own custom rules, plug-ins, and filters that are tailor-made to fit their own networks and the threats which they most commonly face. The book describes the most important concepts of coding and customizing tools, and then provides readers with invaluable working scripts that can either be used as is or further refined by using knowledge gained from the book.
* Snort, Nessus, and Ethereal are the three most popular open source security tools in the world
* Only book that teaches readers how to customize these tools for their specific needs by coding rules,
plugins, and filters
* Companion Web site provides all working code and scripts from the book for download
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
1;Cover;1
2;Contents;13
3;Foreword;25
4;Nessus Tools;27
5;The Inner Workings of NASL;29
6;Debugging NASLs;41
7;Extensions and Custom Tests;55
8;Understanding the Extended Capabilities of the Nessus Environment;69
9;Analyzing GetFileVersion and MySQL Passwordless Test;83
10;Automating the Creation of NASLs;121
11;The Inner Workings of Snort;177
12;Snort Rules;207
13;Plugins and Preprocessors;247
14;Modifying Snort;281
15;Capture File Formats;305
16;Protocol Dissectors;349
17;Reporting from Ethereal;383
18;Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain;427
19;Index;459
20;Related Titles;472
