Special Ops

Providing security and IT professionals with an in-depth and comprehensive view of network devices, protocols and architectures, this title builds on concepts presented in the original "Special Ops" book and gives detailed guidance on real world network threats and exposures. While most network security books focus on ancillary topics, this edition in the "Special Ops" series will concentrate strictly on the nuts and bolts of networks, such as routers, firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and the networking protocols that work in congress with them. This volume has over 200 pages dedicated to the most up to-date network layer attacks and mitigation techniques across a wide assortment of vendors and not just the typical attention paid to market leaders such as Cisco and Checkpoint. In addition, the book provides detailed network architecture and design techniques to help lessen the impact or feasibility of potential attacks. It focuses on perimeter and internal networks, giving IT and security administrators a complete picture of how they should design and protect their enterprises.
Whether you use UNIX or Windows, Apache or IIS, Oracle or DB2-you still need a network connecting servers to clients and this book is designed to help you.