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PublisherElsevier Science & Technology Books

ISBN-101597490202

ISBN-139781597490207

eBay Product ID (ePID)109345288

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools : Customizing Open Source Security Applications

Publication Year2005

SubjectComputer Science, Security / General, Security / Networking, Interactive & Multimedia

TypeTextbook

AuthorJay Beale, Noam Rathaus, Brian Caswell, Gilbert Ramirez

Subject AreaComputers

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentPart I: Nessus Tools The Inner Workings of NASL Debugging NASLs; Extensions and Custom Tests Understanding the Extended Capabilities of the Nessus Environment Analyzing GetFileVersion and MySQL Passwordless Test Automating the Creation of NASLs Part II: Snort Tools The Inner Workings of Snort Snort Rules Plugins and Preprocessors Modifying Snort Part III: Etherial Tools Capture file Formats Protocol Dissectors Reporting from Etherial Appendix A Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain

SynopsisNessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools covers 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 contains 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., Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools covers 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 contains 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. Snort, Nessus, and Ethereal are the three most popular open source security tools in the world Only book that teaches readers how to customize these tools for their specific needs by coding rules, plugins, and filters Companion Web site provides all working code and scripts from the book for download