Halting the hacker

A practical guide to computer security

Donald L. Pipkin

388 pages, parution le 17/09/2002 (2^eme édition)

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Secure your systems against today's attacks-and tomorrow's!

Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide to Computer Security, Second Edition combines unique insight into the mind of the hacker with practical, step-by-step countermeasures for protecting any HP-UX, Linux, or UNIX system.

Top Hewlett-Packard security architect Donald L. Pipkin has updated this global bestseller for today's most critical threats, tools, and responses. Pipkin organizes this book around the processes hackers use to gain access, privileges, and control-showing you exactly how they work and the best ways to respond. Best of all, Pipkin doesn't just tell you what to do, but why. Using dozens of new examples, he gives you the skills and mindset to protect yourself against any current exploit-and attacks that haven't even been imagined yet.

How hackers select targets, identify systems, gather information, gain access, acquire privileges, and avoid detection
How multiple subsystems can be used in harmony to attack your computers and networks
Specific steps you can take immediately to improve the security of any HP-UX, Linux, or UNIX system
How to build a secure UNIX system from scratch-with specifics for HP-UX and Red Hat Linux
Systematic proactive, reactive, and preemptive security measures
Security testing, ongoing monitoring, incident response, and recovery-in depth
Legal recourse: What laws are being broken, what you need to prosecute, and how to overcome the obstacles to successful prosecution

The accompanying CD-ROM contains an extensive library of HP-UX and Linux software tools for detecting and eliminating security problems and a comprehensive information archive on security-related topics.

Contents

Part 1: Understanding hackers

Who hackers are
Hacker motives
What hackers do
How hackers do what they do

Part 2 : The hacking process

Gathering information
Limiting information disclosure
Gaining access
Limiting access
Getting credentials
Controling authentication
Gaining privileges
Controlling authorizations
Avoiding detection
Increasing monitoring

Part 3 : Legal recourse

Computer crimes
Legal prosecution
Obstacles to prosecution
Improving successful prosecution
Halting the hacher
Preparation
Installation
Proactive protection
Security testing
Security monitoring
Reactive security
Recovery
Review

L'auteur - Donald L. Pipkin

Donald L. Pipkin, CISSP, is an Information Security Architect for the Internet SecurityDivision of Hewlett-Packard. He is an internationally renowned security expert with fifteen-plusyears of experience in the industry. He is a frequent speaker on security and is the author ofthe new book Information Security: Protecting the Global Enterprise. He is versed in allaspects of security, including policy and procedures, and has hands-on experience with computerintrusions. He has made presentations on security at various conferences from a regionalto the international level. His years of experience have allowed him to bring his understandingof security issues and his experiences with computer crime to bear when consulting with Fortune500 companies on issues of policies and procedures addressing specific security issues.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Donald L. Pipkin
Parution	17/09/2002
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	388
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	760g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780130464163
ISBN13	978-0-13-046416-3