Nessus, Snort, & Ethereal power tools customizing open source security applications /

• Main Author: Archibald, Neil
• Corporate Authors: ScienceDirect (Online Service), Syngress Media, Inc
• Other Authors: Burke, Josh, RAMIREZ, Gilbert, Ramirez, Gilbert, 1972-, RATHAUS, Noam, Rathaus, Noam
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Rockland, MA : [Sebastopol, Calif.] : Syngress ; Distributed by O'Reilly Media, c2005.
• Series: Jay Beale's open source security series
• Subjects: Computer networks > Security measures.; Open source software.; Ασφάλεια ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών; Δίκτυα ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών > Ασφαλιστικά μέτρα; Ηλεκτρονικοί υπολογιστές > Δίκτυα > Μέτρα ασφάλειας; Λογισμικό ανοικτού κώδικα; Electronic books.; Ηλεκτρονικό βιβλίο

This book will cover customizing Snort to perform intrusion detection and prevention; Nessus to analyze the network layer for vulnerabilities; and Ethereal to sniff their network for malicious or unusual traffic. The book will also contain an appendix detailing the best of the rest open source secur...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Nessus Tools; The Inner Workings of NASL; Debugging NASLs; Extensions and Custom Tests; Understanding the Extended Capabilities of the Nessus Environment; Analyzing GetFileVersion and MySQL Passwordless Test; Automating the Creation of NASLs; Part II: Snort Tools; The Inner Workings of Snort; Snort Rules; Plugins and Preprocessors; Modifying Snort; Part III: Etherial Tools; Capture file Formats; Protocol Dissectors; Reporting from Etherial; Appendix A Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain.