Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 059600611X, Paperback)

If you're a network administrator, you're under pressure to defend your systems from attack. But short of devoting your life to becoming a security expert, what can you do to ensure the safety of your mission critical systems? Using steps laid out by professional security analysts and consultants to identify and assess risks, Network Security Assessment offers an efficient testing model you can adopt, refine, and reuse to create proactive defensive strategies to protect your systems from the threats that are out there, as well as those still being developed. This thorough and insightful guide covers offensive technologies by grouping and analyzing them at a higher level--from both an offensive and defensive standpoint--helping administrators design and deploy networks that are immune to offensive exploits, tools, and scripts. If you need to develop and implement a security assessment program, you'll find everything you're looking for in this time-saving new book.