Network Protocols for Security Professionals (Early Access)

Discover network-based attacks and learn to defend your organization's network and network devices

Key Features
Exploit vulnerabilities and use custom modules and scripts to crack authentication protocols
Safeguard against web, mail, database, DNS, voice, video, and collaboration server attacks
Monitor and protect against brute-force attacks by implementing defense mechanisms
Book Description
Network security plays an important role in securing IT infrastructures against attacks. The increased demand for computer systems, and the ever-evolving internet, has allowed people to find vulnerabilities and infiltrate into organizations through their network. Network Protocol Security will help you safeguard your organization's network and networking devices.

This book is a comprehensive guide that begins with the basics, gradually increases in complexity, and later takes you through advanced concepts. You will start by understanding the structure of data network protocols and devices as well as breaches. In addition to this, you'll become familiar with attacking tools and scripts that take advantage of these breaches. After covering the basics, you will learn attacks that target networks and network devices. Next, you will perform eavesdropping, learn data analysis, and use behavior analysis for network forensics. Toward the concluding chapters, you will understand network protocols and how to use methods and tools you learned in the previous parts to attack and protect these protocols.

By the end of this network security book, you will have learned network protocol security and security counter-measures to protect network protocols.

What you will learn
Understand security breaches, weaknesses, and protection techniques
Attack and defend wired as well as wireless networks
Discover how to attack and defend LAN, IP, and TCP/UDP-based vulnerabilities
Focus on encryption, authorization, and authentication principles
Gain insights into implementing security protocols the right way
Use tools and scripts to perform attacks on network devices
Wield Python, PyShark, and other scripting tools for packet analysis
Identify attacks on web servers to secure web and email services
Who This Book Is For
This book is for red team and blue team pentesters, security professionals, or bug hunters. Anyone involved in network protocol management and security will also benefit from this book. Basic experience in network security will be an added advantage.

Table of Contents
Data Networks Structure and Weakness Points
Network Protocols Structure and Operation
Security Protocols and Their Implementation
Using Network Security Tools, Scripts and Codes
Finding Protocol Vulnerabilities
Discovering Network-Based Attacks and Tools
Attacking on Network Devices
Network Traffic Analysis and Eavesdropping
Using Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection
Discovering LANs, IP, and TCP/UDP-Based Attacks
Implementing Wireless Networks Security
Attacking Routing Protocols
DNS Security
Securing Web and Email Services
Enterprise Applications Security - Databases and Filesystems
IP Telephony and Collaboration Services Security