Fundamentals of Network Security / Edition 1

by Eric Maiwald

Overview

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This hands-on, project-based approach to the fundamentals of network security concepts and skills helps students understand security best practices, laws, and standards that will enable them to build a complete security program.This book introduces a strong foundation that includes security policy, planning, and development of good processes. A step-by-step design teaches students security implementation using recent advances in security tools, such as firewalls, VPN's, encryption, techniques, and intrusion detection devises. Platform-specific defenses are revealed for the desktop, Windows networks, UNIX, Internet, and wireless systems. Laws and government regulation are also covered, including the Patriot Act, homeland security initiatives, and special information on relevant state laws.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072230932
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/05/2003
Series:	Networking Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

Eric Maiwald is an Analyst with the Burton Group (www.burtongroup.com), where he focuses on enterprise security infrastructure technologies. Mr. Maiwald has over seventeen years of experience in information security, where he has worked as a security officer and consultant for large financial institutions, healthcare providers, services firms, and manufacturers. He has extensive experience in the security field performing assessments, policy development, architecture design, and product implementations. Mr. Maiwald holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.Mr. Maiwald is a named inventor on patent numbers 577,209, "Apparatus and Method for Providing Multi-level Security for Communications among Computers and Terminals on a Network"; 5.872.847, "Using Trusted Associations to Establish Trust in a Computer Network"; 5,940,591, "Apparatus and Method for Providing Network Security"; and 6,212.636, "Method for Establishing Trust in a Computer Network via Association."Mr. Maiwald is a regular presenter at a number of well-known security conferences. He has also written Network Security: A Beginner's Guide, Security Planning and Disaster Recovery (with William Sieglein), and Fundamentals of Network Security, all published by McGraw-Hill, and is a contributing author for Hacking Linux Exposed and Hacker's Challenge, also published by McGraw-Hill.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Foreword	xxi
	About This Book	xxv
Part I	Information Security Basics
1	What Is Information Security?	3
2	Types of Attacks	23
3	Hacker Techniques	45
4	Information Security Services	95
Part II	Groundwork
5	Legal Issues in Information Security	115
6	Policy	143
7	Managing Risk	177
8	Information Security Process	201
9	Information Security Best Practices	233
Part III	Security Technologies
10	Firewalls	267
11	Virtual Private Networks	285
12	Encryption	311
13	Intrusion Detection	349
Part IV	Practical Applications and Platform-Specific Implementations
14	Desktop Protection	391
15	Unix Security Issues	409
16	Windows NT Security Issues	439
17	Windows 2000/ Windows 2003 Server Security Issues	463
18	Internet Architecture	509
19	E-Commerce Security Needs	545
20	Wireless Security	581
	Glossary	601
	Index	629