Hack Proofing Your Network

IT professionals who want to run secure networks, or build secure software, need to know about the methods of hackers. This second edition teaches about those topics, including: the politics; laws of security; classes of attack; methodology; diffing; decrypting; brute force; unexpected input; buffer overrun; sniffing; session hijacking; spoofing; server holes; client holes; trojans and viruses; reporting security problems; and choosing secure systems. The central idea of this book is that it’s better for you to find the holes in your network than it is for someone else to find them, someone that would use them against you.