Internet Security Professional Reference, Second Edition
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): Authors Multiple
ISBN: 156205760x
Publication Date: 07/16/97

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Introduction

You should find Internet Security Professional Reference, Second Edition to be a valuable tool in protecting your Internet connection from hackers, thieves, and mishaps. It is a comprehensive book, containing all the information a private person, a small business, or a large business would need to prevent security breaches. If you are a security professional, or anyone involved in consulting on, administering, or providing Internet and network services, you need this book, and will find it extremely helpful.

It covers everything from specific technologies to specific strategies, as well as business decisions involved in securing an Internet connection. The authors get into the minds of hackers and beat them at their own game. If you want a secure network connection to the Internet, you want this book.

How This Book is Organized

This book is organized into five different parts.

Part I, Managing Internet Security, covers topics that are important to understand as you plan and implement a network connection. With chapters on TCP/IP, UUCP, daemons, and audit trails, Part I will completely prepare you to tackle the issues involving specific security strategies.

Part II, Gaining Access and Securing the Gateway, is the next, and perhaps the most important step. If your gateway isn’t secure, nothing is. This section deals with spoofing, sniffing, and the ever-important firewall. It also covers SATAN and Kerberos, so after reading the chapters in Part II, you’ll know everything you need to know regarding a secure gateway.

Part III, Messaging: Creating a Secure Channel, gets to the heart of the matter. If hackers manage to get past the foundation of your security, you can still protect the message itself. With detailed coverage of encryption techniques and PGP, you’ll have a complete understanding of how to utilize encryption for maximum results.

Part IV, Modern Concerns, finishes off the book with in-depth discussions of how modern technologies can affect security and how to implement in the most secure fashion possible. You will read about Java security, Windows NT security, CGI security, and viruses.

Part V, Appendices, holds appendices A and B, which you will find useful when looking for Security information, resources and references.

New Riders Publishing

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