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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)

Authentication

Authentication is the act of establishing or confirming something (or someone) as authentic or genuine. Authentication depends upon one or more authentication factors. Testing the authentication schema means understanding and visualizing the overall process of how the authentication works and using that information to find vulnerabilities in the implementation of the authentication mechanism. Compromising the authentication system gives attackers direct entry into the application, making it further exposed to variety of attacks.

The upcoming sections describe a few important tests for authentication.

Credentials over a secure channel

This is indeed a very basic check. Applications must transmit user credentials...