You're reading from Network Protocols for Security Professionals

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789953480

Pages 580 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (2):

Yoram Orzach

Deepanshu Khanna

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Protecting the Network – Technologies, Protocols, Vulnerabilities, and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Data Centers and the Enterprise Network Architecture and its Components

3. Chapter 2: Network Protocol Structures and Operations

4. Chapter 3: Security Protocols and Their Implementation

5. Chapter 4: Using Network Security Tools, Scripts, and Code

6. Chapter 5: Finding Protocol Vulnerabilities

7. Part 2: Network, Network Devices, and Traffic Analysis-Based Attacks

8. Chapter 6: Finding Network-Based Attacks

9. Chapter 7: Detecting Device-Based Attacks

10. Chapter 8: Network Traffic Analysis and Eavesdropping

11. Chapter 9: Using Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection

12. Part 3: Network Protocols – How to Attack and How to Protect

13. Chapter 10: Discovering LAN, IP, and TCP/UDP-Based Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Implementing Wireless Network Security

15. Chapter 12: Attacking Routing Protocols

16. Chapter 13: DNS Security

17. Chapter 14: Securing Web and Email Services

18. Chapter 15: Enterprise Applications Security – Databases and Filesystems

19. Chapter 16: IP Telephony and Collaboration Services Security

20. Assessments

21. Index

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