Network Security: A Hacker's Perspective

by Ankit Fadia

Book Overview

Learn how to protect your network system from a hacker's perspective. Virtually every organization is reliant on their computer system and when hackers infiltrate, productivity often halts completely.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592000452
• ISBN13: 9781592000456
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Premier Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Buy

I have read all books written by Ankit and I must say that each time he comes out with a new book, he betters his previous writing. This new book is no exception. Network Security: A Hacker's Perspective is Ankit's best book till now. I have found a lot of useful information in this book. It is loaded with lots and lots of information on how an attacker goes about the process of fingeprinting the target network and how a system administrator can protect his network from such probing attacks.In my opinion (and I am sure most of you will agree with me as well) this book is probably the most comprehensive book on Hacker Profiling and Scanning. I highly recommend this book to all system administratos out there who wish to get inside the minds of an attacker and know what his next move will be.

A great read

...After reading "Network Security......", I found the book to be filled with extremely important bits of knowledge related to security, which one tends to overlook normally. This book is certainly a storehouse of such important aspects of security. However, I was most of all impressed with the author's ability to describe a particular attack or working from several different perspectives. The author has this uncanny ability to notice and identify several facets of the same attack. This helps the readers to better understand concepts.The author is an excellent writer and seems to have a lot of experience in this field and has indeed churned out an AmaZING book!

A must read for any computer security professional

Whenever there is going to be a new book from ankit fadia there are a lot of expectations.Surely this book has lived upto the expectations of the readers. Morever in this book the encryption and file security part could have been elaborated. The only difficulty in reading this book is that the C code cannot be easily understood by newbies.Overall it's a fantastic job by ankit fadia and hats off to him.

cool

I rate this book right up there with my Stevens guide. am a networking hardcore and even I got to learn something from this book. That is certainly rare. lol. Good job Fadia and well done.

Perfect for computer security professionals

I am from Singapore and am a Chief Technical Officer of a security firm. I had attended Ankit Fadia's seminar in Kuala Lumpur in October 2002 and had ordered a book there itself. I received the book in November (the Indian edition) and have loved it. One gets to learn something new on every single page of the book. After reading the book I have even submitted a proposal for using the book for inhouse training of my employees. It is an excellent guide to hacker profiling and has been very useful for me in my job front. It acts as an excellent reference book when I am studying the log files on my clients' networks for tracing down inrusion attempts.I strongly recommend this book to all security professionals.