Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools - Jay Beale, Brian Caswell, Gilbert Ramirez, Noam Rathaus

Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal Power Tools (eBook)

Customizing Open Source Security Applications

Jay Beale, Brian Caswell, Gilbert Ramirez, Noam Rathaus (Autoren)

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2005 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-048942-1 (ISBN)

This book will cover 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 will also contain 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

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

Cover 1
Contents 13
Foreword 25
Nessus Tools 27
The Inner Workings of NASL 29
Debugging NASLs 41
Extensions and Custom Tests 55
Understanding the Extended Capabilities of the Nessus Environment 69
Analyzing GetFileVersion and MySQL Passwordless Test 83
Automating the Creation of NASLs 121
The Inner Workings of Snort 177
Snort Rules 207
Plugins and Preprocessors 247
Modifying Snort 281
Capture File Formats 305
Protocol Dissectors 349
Reporting from Ethereal 383
Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain 427
Index 459
Related Titles 472

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.9.2005
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-08-048942-7 / 0080489427
ISBN-13	978-0-08-048942-1 / 9780080489421

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