About the Book:
The book begins with an overview of best practices for testing security and performance across devices and the network. The book explores security zoning the network, with an emphasis on isolated entry points for various classes of access.
It shows how to use open source tools to test network configurations for malware attacks, DDoS, botnet, rootkit and worm attacks, and concludes with tactics on how to prepare and execute a mediation schedule of the who, what, where, when, and how, when an attack hits.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to practical security and performance testingChapter 2: Getting organized with initial audit of the networkChapter 3: Locking down the infrastructure: Internet, Wi-Fi, wired, VPN, WAN, and the coreChapter 4: Locking down and optimizing the windows clientChapter 5: Server patternsChapter 6: Testing for security flaws using penetration testingChapter 7: Using Wireshark and TCP dump to visualize trafficChapter 8: Using SNORT
Chapter 9: Live traffic analytics using “Security Onion”Chapter 10: Traffic performance testing in the networkChapter 11: Build your own network elementsChapter 12: Request for proposal and proof of concept example usecases
