Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know - Softcover

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Jeff Crume is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with 18 years experience as a programmer, software designer and IT security specialist working for IBM and its Tivoli Systems subsidiary. He has consulted with companies around the world as they develop secure e-commerce payment systems and designed networking infrastructures intended for e-business. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has published articles on cryptography and virtual private networking.

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This book is a practical guide for anyone designing or administering a corporate or e-business network that runs across a number of platforms via the Internet. It will arm systems administrators with a thorough understanding of the problems of network security and their solutions, and thus help realize the tremendous potential of e-business.

With the explosion growth of e-commerce and the opening up of corporate networks to external customers, security is now the number one issue for networking professionals. Concerns about hackers and the possible damage they can do to a business, and the potential vulnerabilities of a system can be overwhelming and can create an unhealthy business environment.

However, a great deal of this is based on lack of information as to exactly how hackers approach their task, and of the exact vulnerabilities that they prey on. In this book, Jeff Crume dispels this fear by putting these threats into perspective and allowing realistic defense mechanisms to be created, to the extent that security becomes a business enabler, rather than inhibitor.

Inside Internet Security describes the underlying principles that crop up again and again in hacker attacks, and then progresses focus on lessons that can be learned, and on how to protect against recurrence.

Features:
Practical hands-on advice on securing networked systems
Security checklists for common scenarios
Pointers to other detailed information sources
In-depth theoretical background information
Real-world Examples of actual attacks
A glimpse into the future of IT security

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Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know Jeff Crume

Understand the real issues of Internet security without getting lost in the complexity! - 16 key vulnerabilities hackers don't want you to recognize and what to do about them! - Building computer security policies that really work and avoiding policies that are guaranteed to fail. - A broad-based multi-platform approach, with special insider's insights into IBM-centered environments.

Inside Internet Security is the practical, accessible, real-world security guide for everyone who designs or manages business-critical networks. IBM Tivoli Systems consultant Jeff Crume demonstrates how many hacker attacks are little more than "variations on a theme": tried-and-true, well-known attacks that only succeed because IT professionals choose to ignore their vulnerabilities. Crume shows how hackers think and work; how to assess your risk, how to build security policies that teach and how to avoid creating policies that are doomed to fail. He reviews the key network security risks hackers don't want you to know about: the limitations of firewalls, passwords and anti-virus software; security risks in downlevel software; dangerous default settings; obsolete cryptography; backdoors, and many more. Next, he presents a high-level guide to defending yourself, focused on the human and management issues that are at the heart of most information security failures. For all enterprise network administrators, designers, and managers.

Jeff Crume is a Consulting IT/Security Specialist with IBM's Tivoli Systems organization in Raleigh, NC. He has worked as a programmer, product designer, technical support specialist, and systems engineer during his 16 years with the company. During that time, he helped lead development for the initial release of IBM's NetView network management software, and was awarded a U.S. patent for his work on message forwarding and loop detection.