If you’re a network administrator, you’re under pressure to defend your systems from attack. But short of devoting your life to becoming a security expert, what can you do to ensure the safety of your mission critical systems? Using steps laid out by professional security analysts and consultants to identify and assess risks, Network Security Assessment offers an efficient testing model you can adopt, refine, and reuse to create proactive defensive strategies to protect your systems from the threats that are out there, as well as those still being developed. This thorough and insightful guide covers offensive technologies by grouping and analyzing them at a higher level–from both an offensive and defensive standpoint–hel (more…)
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Still good companion for the security prosessional
This review is a comparison between the first and second edition. Other readers have properly described the book and you won’t find anything different.
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Essential For Security Concerned IT Admins
‘Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network’ is an absolute must buy for anyone that runs/admins a network and needs to know the tricks to keeping things safer in today’s…
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Any collection catering to programmers or network managers needs
Chris McNab’s NETWORK SECURITY ASSESSMENT appears in its second updated edition to cover the protocols for testing network security – by trying to attack it internally.
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Network Security Assessment
explainsa variety of exploits and tells you how to harden your network. This book is very well researched and extremely well written and is reader friendly, as some security books…
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Very good book for security policy enablers and admins
This is one of the few books that I have come across that focuses mainly on the innards of security assessments.
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Good Methodology and Specifics
I’ve read a heck of a lot of books on security assessments. Some turn into hacking manuals, others turn into windy documents on documenting the process and why each piece of the…
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Getting into the technical nitty-gritty of assessments
Recently I published a review of “Security Assessment – Case Studies for Implementing The NSA IAM”. In other reviews of this book, one person was upset that it did not focus on…
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Good book for assessments overview
Network Security Assessment is a quite good book. It lists many scanning tools and techniques appliable on different network aspects, reordering ideas to a confused security…
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Excellent book and has a lot of valuable information
The book’s preface starts out with a simple fact, one that is not always obvious to many: It is never impossible for a hacker to break into a computer system, only improbable…
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A great collection of assessment tools and techniquesAwareness is a key component in a person’s quest for mitigating the inherent risk of operating an IP network attached to the Internet.