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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)

Auditing and logging

Checking for the completeness of application audit logs is one of the most important procedural aspects of application security assessment. Audit logs are categorized as detective controls which come handy in the case of a security incident. An enterprise application is typically complex in nature and interconnected with several other systems such as a database server, load balancer, caching server and many more. In the case of a breach, audit logs play the most important role in reconstructing the incident scenario. Audit logs with insufficient details would limit the incident investigation to a greater extent. So the capability of an application to generate event logs must be carefully examined to find any shortcomings as applicable.

OWASP mapping

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