Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools Customizing Open Source Security Applications
| Author/creator | Ramirez, Gilbert Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Syngress Press [Imprint] San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology Books |
| Description | 400 p. ill 09.000 x 07.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Computer Science 1995 - 2006 |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Other author/creator | Archibald, Neil Author |
| Other author/creator | Deraison, Renaud Editor |
| Other author/creator | Rathaus, Noam Author |
| Other author/creator | Burke, Josh Editor |
| Other author/creator | Caswell, Brian Author |
| Series | Jay Beale's Open Source Security Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation This book will cover customizing Snort to perform intrusion detection and prevention; Nessus to analyze the network layer for vulnerabilities; and Ethereal to "sniff" their network for malicious or unusual traffic. The book will also contain an appendix detailing "the best of the rest" open source security tools. Each of these tools is intentionally designed to be highly customizable so that users can torque the programs to suit their particular needs. Users can code their own custom rules, plug-ins, and filters that are tailor-made to fit their own networks and the threats which they most commonly face. The book describes the most important concepts of coding and customizing tools, and then provides readers with invaluable working scripts that can either be used as is or further refined by using knowledge gained from the book.<br /><br />* Snort, Nessus, and Ethereal are the three most popular open source security tools in the world<br />* Only book that teaches readers how to customize these tools for their specific needs by coding rules,<br />plugins, and filters<br />* Companion Web site provides all working code and scripts from the book for download |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781597490207 |
| ISBN | 1597490202 (Perfect) Out of Stock Indefinitely |
| Standard identifier# | 9781597490207 |
| Stock number | 00991439 |
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