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Network Protocols for Security Professionals

By : Yoram Orzach, Deepanshu Khanna
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Book Image

Network Protocols for Security Professionals

5 (1)
By: Yoram Orzach, Deepanshu Khanna

Overview of this book

With the increased demand for computer systems and the ever-evolving internet, network security now plays an even bigger role in securing IT infrastructures against attacks. Equipped with the knowledge of how to find vulnerabilities and infiltrate organizations through their networks, you’ll be able to think like a hacker and safeguard your organization’s network and networking devices. Network Protocols for Security Professionals will show you how. This comprehensive guide gradually increases in complexity, taking you from the basics to advanced concepts. Starting with the structure of data network protocols, devices, and breaches, you’ll become familiar with attacking tools and scripts that take advantage of these breaches. Once you’ve covered the basics, you’ll learn about attacks that target networks and network devices. Your learning journey will get more exciting as you perform eavesdropping, learn data analysis, and use behavior analysis for network forensics. As you progress, you’ll develop a thorough understanding of network protocols and how to use methods and tools you learned in the previous parts to attack and protect these protocols. By the end of this network security book, you’ll be well versed in network protocol security and security countermeasures to protect network protocols.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1: Protecting the Network – Technologies, Protocols, Vulnerabilities, and Tools
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Part 2: Network, Network Devices, and Traffic Analysis-Based Attacks
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Part 3: Network Protocols – How to Attack and How to Protect

Microsoft network protocols – NetBIOS, SMB, and LDAP operations, vulnerabilities, and exploitation

In the modern era, organizations depend upon Microsoft and its products because they are user-friendly and provide better communication between a client and a server. Now, to communicate between the client and the server, various protocols are required to resolve machine hostnames, secure file sharing between them, and most importantly, locate data and resources about individual users and the organization.

Combining all this to work as one in a whole domain is very difficult, and if misconfigured, this can leave doors open for attackers to take advantage and compromise the critical assets in an organization. So, let’s look at some of the network protocols defined by Microsoft in the domain that helps to communicate, locate and share resources between a client and a server.

NetBIOS

NetBIOS can be defined as the Network Basic Input Output System, which is a legacy...