Network performance and security: Testing and analyzing using open source and low-cost tools 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780128035849,9780128036013,0128035846,012803601X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 012803601X
• ISBN-13: 9780128036013
• Author: Chapman Chris

Network Performance Security: Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools gives mid-level IT engineers the practical tips and tricks they need to use the best open source or low cost tools available to harden their IT infrastructure. The book details how to use the tools and how to interpret them. Network Performance Security: Testing and Analyzing Using Open Source and Low-Cost Tools begins with an overview of best practices for testing security and performance across devices and the network. It then shows how to document assets—such as servers, switches, hypervisor hosts, routers, and firewalls—using publicly available tools for network inventory.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to practical security and performance testing

Chapter 2: Getting organized with initial audit of the network

Chapter 3: Locking down the infrastructure: Internet, Wi-Fi, wired, VPN, WAN, and the core

Chapter 4: Locking down and optimizing the windows client

Chapter 5: Server patterns

Chapter 6: Testing for security flaws using penetration testing

Chapter 7: Using Wireshark and TCP dump to visualize traffic

Chapter 8: Using SNORT

Chapter 9: Live traffic analytics using “Security Onion”

Chapter 10: Traffic performance testing in the network

Chapter 11: Build your own network elements

Chapter 12: Request for proposal and proof of concept example usecases

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