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Penetration Testing and Network Defense

The practical guide to simulating, detecting, and responding to network attacks

* Create step-by-step testing plans
* Learn to perform social engineering and host reconnaissance
* Evaluate session hijacking methods
* Exploit web server vulnerabilities
* Detect attempts to breach database security
* Use password crackers to obtain access information
* Circumvent Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and firewall protections and disrupt the service of routers and switches
* Scan and penetrate wireless networks
* Understand the inner workings of Trojan Horses, viruses, and other backdoor applications
* Test UNIX, Microsoft, and Novell servers for vulnerabilities
* Learn the root cause of buffer overflows and how to prevent them
* Perform and prevent Denial of Service attacks

Penetration testing is a growing field but there has yet to be a definitive resource that instructs ethical hackers on how to perform a penetration test with the ethics and responsibilities of testing in mind. Penetration Testing and Network Defense offers detailed steps on how to emulate an outside attacker in order to assess the security of a network.

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