If you don’t hack your systems, who will?
One of the reasons I put this book project together is that I believe security professionals should be hackers. In this case, by hackers, I mean people who are capable of defeating security measures. This book purports to teach people how to be hackers. In reality, most of the people who buy this book will do so because they want to protect their own systems and those of their employer. So, how can you prevent break-ins to your system if you don’t know how they are accomplished? How do you test your security measures? How do you make a judgment about how secure a new system is?
When you’re through reading Hack Proofing Your Network, you’ll understand terms like “smashing the stack,” “blind spoofing,” “building a backward bridge,” “steganography,” “buffer overflow” and you’ll see why you need to worry about them.

You will learn how to protect your servers from attacks by using a 5-step approach:
1. Planning
2. Network/Machine Recon
3. Research/Develop
4. Execute Attack and Achieve Goal
5. Cleanup
And you’ll understand the theory of hacking, how to fend off local and remote attacks, and how to report and evaluate security problems.
The Only Way to Stop a Hacker Is to Think Like One.

As one of the few rising stars of the semiconductor industry, WLAN
design is engaging more and more engineers and companies. Essential to
the overall system design, is the radio design. In Wireless LAN Radios
Arya Behzad covers the necessary theory while emphasizing the practical
aspects of this promising technology. This book introduces the nuances
of the 802.11 WLAN PHY standards (A/B/G) and describes their
specifications and impact on radio design. The possible choices for the
radio architecture (direct-conversion, low-IF, super heterodyne) are
examined and their impact on the transistor-level design is explained.
Coverage includes the effect of certain analog/RF impairments on the
overall system performance and a discussion of the choice of process
technology on the radio architecture.

This book helps address the skills shortage and support expansion of
IPTV across the globe. Telecom operators, wireless mobile providers,
cable TV companies, media companies, broadcasters, video production
companies, and Internet portal companies worldwide are either offering
IP video services or actively investigating their deployment. This book
increases the reader’s knowledge of IPTV, which in turn leads to greater
confidence in dealing with day-to-day planning and management of IPTV
systems.

IT organizations face pressure to increase productivity, improve
application performance, support global collaboration, improve data
protection, and minimize costs. In today’s WAN-centered environments,
traditional LAN-oriented infrastructure approaches are insufficient to
meet these goals. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization
Fundamentals introduces a better solution: integrating today’s new
generation of accelerator solutions to efficiently and effectively scale
networks beyond traditional capabilities while improving performance and
minimizing costs through consolidation.

Ted Grevers and Joel Christner begin by reviewing the challenges network
professionals face in delivering applications to globally distributed
workforces. You learn how accelerators are transforming application
business models, enabling IT departments to centralize and consolidate
resources while also delivering consistently superior performance.

Grevers and Christner show how to identify network consumers, prioritize
traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput and response times to
business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality of service
techniques such as packet classification and marking and traffic
policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.

Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators and optimization
services into your network and for optimizing content delivery. The
authors show how to address application protocol-related performance
problems that cannot be resolved through compression or flow
optimization alone. In the final chapter, the authors walk you through
several real-world scenarios for utilizing accelerator technology.

Ted Grevers, Jr., is the solution manager for the Cisco(r) Video IPTV
Systems Test and Architecture (C-VISTA) team. He has extensive
experience in the content delivery network (CDN) market, focusing on
enterprise and service provider content delivery and application
optimization needs.

Joel Christner, CCIE(r) No. 15311, is the manager of technical marketing
for the Cisco Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU). He has
extensive experience with application protocols, acceleration
technologies, LAN/WAN infrastructure, and storage networking. Grevers
and Christner are key contributors to the design and architecture of
Cisco application delivery and application acceleration solutions.

Book Description

Cisco Networking Simplified
Second Edition

* Master today’s world of Cisco networking with this book’s completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach
* Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals
* Covers the latest networking topics—from network architecture to secure wireless, unified communications to telepresence
In Full Color

Jim Doherty • Neil Anderson • Paul Della Maggiora

Now 100 percent updated for the latest technologies, this is today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco® networking. Even if you’ve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!

* How networks and the Internet work
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* How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability
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* How to secure networks against today’s threats and attacks
* How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies
* How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments even further
* How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, the only authorized publisher for Cisco®.

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Covers: General Networking

From the Back Cover

A visual explanation of networking technologies

What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!

* How the Internet works
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* What makes a network safe
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* Useful for both novices and networking professionals
* Covers a broad variety of internetworking topics-from e-mail to VPNs

At last-an illustrated guide to the world of Cisco networking. Cisco Networking Simplified breaks down the complicated world of internetworking into easy-to-understand parts. Learn quickly and easily the fundamentals of a variety of topics, such as security, IP telephony, and quality of service, from the full-color diagrams and clear explanations found in Cisco Networking Simplified.

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As Internet traffic continues to grow exponentially, there is a great
need to build Internet protocol (IP) routers with high-speed and
high-capacity packet networking capabilities. The first book to explore
this subject, Packet Forwarding Technologies explains in depth packet
forwarding concepts and implementation technologies. It covers the data
structures, algorithms, and architectures used to implement high-speed
routers. Following an introduction to the architecture of IP routers,
the author discusses how IP address lookup is one of the major
bottlenecks in high-performance routers. He describes the
characteristics of a routing table and addresses the difficulty of the
longest-matching prefix search. The remainder of the book deals with
fast IP address lookup. Coverage includes the various available
architectures, data structures, and algorithms based on software and
hardware as well as detailed discussions on state-of-the-art
innovations. With many illustrations, tables, and simulations, this
practical guide to packet forwarding technologies facilitates
understanding of IP routers and the latest router designs.

Broadband wireless networks bring us closer to the Internet’s ultimate
destiny of interconnecting everyone, everywhere. But wireless networking
can be a bit geeky and nerve-wracking without a proper guide. Let’s face
it: Networking can be hard. If you’re one of the last holdouts still
connected to the Internet by a wire, The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition
is the book for you. You’ll learn how to set up your own home (or small
office) wireless network and how to use public wireless networks, safely
and securely. This plain-English guide demystifies configuring and using
wireless networks-everything from shopping for parts to securing your
network. Learn how to:

- Select and configure hardware and software for your Wi-Fi network
and configure access points to minimize interference
- Discover open networks and maintain your privacy while surfing in
public
- Use VoIP over a wireless connection to talk on the phone for next to
nothing
- Evaluate wireless data services based on cost, speed, and coverage
- Extend your network to give your neighbors free wireless Internet
access You’ll also learn about new and forthcoming broadband wireless
standards and how to choose the right service provider and equipment.
With up-to-date information on wireless routers, network interface
cards, antennas, security, and software, The Book of Wireless, 2nd
Edition will help you navigate the confusing wireless landscape to find
the perfect solution.

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- No IP telephony experience required
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Cisco Press is a publishing alliance between Cisco Systems® (NASDAQ: CSCO) and the Pearson Education division of Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO). Established in 1996, Cisco Press has published more than 400 technology titles and distributed more than 3 million products to support Cisco networking professionals and students.

Cisco Press is the Cisco Systems authorized book publisher of Cisco networking technology, Cisco certification self-study, and Cisco Networking Academy Program materials. Leading authorities from Cisco Systems and other industry innovators write and contribute to the various titles and series that make up the Cisco Press product family. Products from Cisco Press are part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that combines instructor-led training with hands-on instruction, e-learning, and self-study.

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Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications provides thorough insights and significant research developments on mobile technologies and services. This significant reference book explains how users of such applications access intelligent and adaptable information services, maximizing convenience and minimizing intrusion.