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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)

Cryptography

As we are aware, encryption helps keep data confidential; it plays an important role in web application security as well. Both encryption of data at rest and encryption of data in transit have to be considered while building a secure web application.

OWASP mapping

Cryptography-related vulnerabilities are part of the OWASP Top 10 2017. They are covered under A3:2017 Sensitive Data Exposure. Some of the vulnerabilities listed under this category are as follows:

  • Applications transmitting data in clear text. This concerns protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, and FTP.
  • Application using old or weak cryptographic algorithms.
  • Application using the default crypto keys.
  • Application not enforcing encryption.
  • Application not encrypting...