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Network Protocols for Security Professionals

You're reading from Network Protocols for Security Professionals Probe and identify network-based vulnerabilities and safeguard against network protocol breaches

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789953480

Length 580 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (2):

Deepanshu Khanna

Yoram Orzach

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Protecting the Network – Technologies, Protocols, Vulnerabilities, and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Data Centers and the Enterprise Network Architecture and its Components FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Network Protocol Structures and Operations

4. Chapter 3: Security Protocols and Their Implementation

5. Chapter 4: Using Network Security Tools, Scripts, and Code

6. Chapter 5: Finding Protocol Vulnerabilities

7. Part 2: Network, Network Devices, and Traffic Analysis-Based Attacks

8. Chapter 6: Finding Network-Based Attacks

9. Chapter 7: Detecting Device-Based Attacks

10. Chapter 8: Network Traffic Analysis and Eavesdropping

11. Chapter 9: Using Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection

12. Part 3: Network Protocols – How to Attack and How to Protect

13. Chapter 10: Discovering LAN, IP, and TCP/UDP-Based Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Implementing Wireless Network Security

15. Chapter 12: Attacking Routing Protocols

16. Chapter 13: DNS Security

17. Chapter 14: Securing Web and Email Services

18. Chapter 15: Enterprise Applications Security – Databases and Filesystems

19. Chapter 16: IP Telephony and Collaboration Services Security

20. Assessments

21. Index

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Countermeasures to protect network protocols and databases

The following are countermeasures that should be made a priority to secure SQL servers from misconfiguration injections and network-based attacks:

Keep the operating system and SQL server up to date to protect against multiple known threats.
Disable SMBv1.
Disable Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMR), NetBIOS, and Web Proxy Autodiscover (WPAD).
Disable NTLMv1.
Disable sa, the default user, and the service accounts should not be used as the SQL servers.
Always audit the SQL servers after the new configurations and on a monthly basis.
Always use strong credentials for the domain user and the SQL server user.
Disable the dangerous stored procedures.

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Authors (2)

Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach is a senior networks and networks security advisor, providing network design and network security consulting services to a range of clients. Having spent thirty years in network and information security, Yoram has worked as a network and security engineer across many verticals in roles ranging from a network engineer, security consultant, and instructor. Yoram has gained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Yoram's experience is both with corporate networks; service providers and Internet service providers' networks. His customers are Motorola solutions, Elbit Systems, 888, Taboola, Bezeq, PHI Networks, Cellcom, Strauss group, and many other hi-tech companies.

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Deepanshu Khanna

Deepanshu Khanna

Deepanshu Khanna is a 29-year-old information security and cybercrime consultant and a pioneer in his country. The young and dynamic personality of Deepanshu has not only assisted him in handling information security and cybercrimes but also in creating awareness about these things. He's a hacker appreciated by the Indian government, including the Ministry of Home Affairs and Defence, police departments, and many other institutes, universities, globally renowned IT firms, magazines, and newspapers. He started his career by presenting a popular hack of GRUB at HATCon. He also conducted popular research in the fields of intruder detection software (IDS) and Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) and demonstrated MD5 collisions and buffer overflows, among other things. His work has been published in various magazines such as pentestmag, Hakin9, e-Forensics, SD Journal, and hacker5. He has been invited as a guest speaker to public conferences such as DEF CON, ToorCon, OWASP, HATCon, H1hackz, and many other universities and institutes.

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