Books published by Syngress Media,U.S.

Teaches you practical techniques that can be used on a daily basis, while also explaining the fundamentals so you understand the rationale behind these practices. This book helps you break free from the so-called "best practices" argument by articulating risk exposures in business terms.

A work of fiction which provides an insight into the boundaries of hacking and cyber-terrorism. It is written by a team of the cyber-security specialists in the world.

Explains the advantages of using UTM and how it works, presents best practices on deployment, and is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to deploying Fortinet's FortiGate in the enterprise. This book provides tips, tricks, and proven suggestions and guidelines to set up FortiGate implementations.

Assessing vendors is a tricky process. Large and regulated organizations are forced to demonstrate due diligence in vendor assessment, but often do not know how to do this. This title shows you how to walk the line between under- and over-assessing, so decisions can be made on sufficient data without wasting time, or making decisions too quickly.

Digital Triage Forensics (DTF) is a procedural model for the investigation of digital crime scenes including both traditional crime scenes and the more complex battlefield crime scenes. This book presents the tools, training, and techniques from this practice. It outlines pre- and post-blast investigations.

Contains sections that include Coding, which covers the basics in coding complemented with programming tips and tricks in C/C++, Java, Perl and NASL; Sockets - the technology that allows programs and scripts to communicate over a network is sockets; and, Shellcode which is commonly defined as bytecode converted from Assembly.

Social networks, particularly public ones, have become part of the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate as a society. This book acknowledges that many organizations have already exposed themselves to more risk than they think from social networking and offers strategies for "dialing it back" to retake control.

Offers focused coverage of how to protect mission critical systems, and how to deploy security management systems, IT security, ID management, intrusion detection and prevention systems, computer forensics, network forensics, firewalls, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and more.

Data encryption is a powerful tool, if used properly. This title provides with a step by step hands-on guide that includes: simple descriptions of actual threat scenarios; simple, step-by-step instructions for securing data; how to use open source, time-proven and peer-reviewed cryptographic software; and easy to follow tips for safer computing.

Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe will show you how to take the initiative to prevent hackers from recording and exploiting your company's secrets. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, technology guru Bud Bates discusses the business realities that necessitate VoIP system security and the threats to VoIP over both wire and wireless networks. He also provides essential guidance on how to conduct system security audits and how to integrate your existing IT security plan with your VoIP system and security plans, helping you prevent security breaches and eavesdropping.

In this age of technology, an increasing majority of the world's information is stored electronically. It makes sense then that we rely on high-tech electronic protection systems to guard that information. As professional hackers, the authors get paid to uncover weaknesses in those systems and exploit them. This book reveals those secrets.

Virtualization creates new and difficult challenges for forensic investigations. This book offers an in-depth view into the world of virtualized environments and the implications they have on forensic investigations. It also explains the process of virtualization and the different types of virtualized environments.

Discusses the concepts, methodology, and technology that makes XSS a valid concern. This book explains various types of XSS attacks, how they are implemented, used, and abused. It provides examples of XSS malware and demonstrates real cases where XSS is a dangerous risk that exposes internet users to sensitive data theft and monetary losses.

Demonstrates how to get big dollar security for your network using freely available tools. This book explains security principles and then demonstrates how to achieve them using only freely available software.

Identity authentication and authorization are integral tasks in the digital world. This book describes technology behind and implementation of federated identity systems. It helps you decide if federated identity is good for your system or web service. It also helps you learn about internet authentication and federated authentication.

Pinpoints the dangerous hacks and exploits specific to Microsoft applications, laying out the anatomy of these attacks including how to make your system more secure.

Shows you how to architect, design, plan and deploy Windows 8 and related Microsoft security technologies in the enterprise. This book provides a single source where you can learn how to secure Windows 8 in many systems, including core, endpoint and anywhere access.

A guide that skips the theoretical and technical details and focuses on getting from zero to anonymous as fast as possible. It features step-by-step instructions for configuring and using anonymous networking software.