Subtitled "Know Your Network", the idea behind this book, now in its third edition, is to show you how to assess network security by attacking it yourself. Author Chris McNab shows you the tools and techniques that professional security analysts use to identify and assess risks in government, military, and commercial networks.

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Using the techniques in the book, you can work to create environments that are hardened and more immune from unauthorized use and attack. McNab demonstrates how determined adversaries map attack surface and exploit security weaknesses at both the network and application level.

The third edition has been completely overhauled to include details of the latest hacking techniques used to attack enterprise networks.

Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: December 2016
Pages: 456
ISBN: 978-1491910955
Print: 149191095X
Kindle: B01N6E0BG2
Audience: Network analysts
Level: Intermediate
Category: Security 

Tests are shown for system components including: 

• Common services such as SSH, FTP, Kerberos, SNMP, and LDAP
• Microsoft services, including NetBIOS, SMB, RPC, and RDP
• SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email services
• IPsec and PPTP services that provide secure network access
• TLS protocols and features providing transport security
• Web server software, including Microsoft IIS, Apache, and Nginx
• Frameworks including Rails, Django, Microsoft ASP.NET, and PHP
• Database servers, storage protocols, and distributed key-value stores

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