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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

The tech world has been taken over by digitization to a very large extent, and so it’s become extremely important for an organization to actively design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities can be one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure. Network Vulnerability Assessment starts with network security assessment concepts, workflows, and architectures. Then, you will use open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning. As you make your way through the chapters, you will use these scanning results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. In the concluding chapters, you will dig deeper into concepts such as IP network analysis, Microsoft Services, and mail services. You will also get to grips with various security best practices, which will help you build your network security mechanism. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build a security framework fit for an organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Security misconfiguration

We may take a lot of efforts in securing the application. However applications cannot work in isolation. Running an application, requires a lot of supporting components such as web server, database server, and more. If the application isn't securely configured with all these supporting components, many vulnerabilities will be opened for potential attackers. So, the application should not only be developed securely, but should also be deployed and configured securely.

OWASP mapping

Security misconfiguration related vulnerabilities are part of the OWASP Top 10 2017. They are covered under A6:2017 Security Misconfiguration. Some of the vulnerabilities listed under this category are as follows:

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