| 1. | - 5 Steps to Building and Operating an Effective Security Operations Center (SOC)
- Dec 21, 2015
- Joseph Muniz, co-author of Security Operations Center: Building, Operating, and Maintaining Your SOC, provides a high-level overview of the steps involved in creating a security operations center to protect your organization's valuable data assets.
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| 2. | - Overview of Security Operations Center Technologies
- Dec 15, 2015
- This chapter from Security Operations Center: Building, Operating, and Maintaining your SOC focuses on the technology and services associated with most modern SOC environments, including an overview of best practices for data collection, how data is processed so that it can be used for security analysis, vulnerability management, and some operation recommendations.
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| 3. | - The Art of Network Architecture: Applying Modularity
- May 12, 2014
- This chapter focuses on why we use specific design patterns to implement modularity, discussing specifically why we should use hierarchical design to create a modular network design, why we should use overlay networks to create virtualization, and the results of virtualization as a mechanism to provide modularity.
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| 4. | - Cisco NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Unified Fabric
- Apr 26, 2013
- This chapter shows the basic Nexus 5x00 and Nexus 7000 configurations necessary to provide a Unified access method for LAN data traffic and SAN storage traffic.
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| 5. | - Securing Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) with Cisco TrustSec (CTS)
- Apr 25, 2013
- Ron Fuller shows just how easy it is to take advantage of MACSEC and AES128 bit encryption on your Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches.
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| 6. | - Network Security First-Step: Firewalls
- Feb 8, 2012
- This chapter dissects a firewall’s duties to understand what makes a firewall operate and how it does its job.
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| 7. | - ZigBee Wireless Security: A New Age Penetration Tester's Toolkit
- Jan 9, 2012
- Brad Bowers takes a closer look at the ZigBee protocol, some of the attacks that have been leveraged against it, and the security tools that penetration testers can use.
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| 8. | - Developing Network Security Strategies
- Oct 4, 2010
- To help you handle the difficulties inherent in designing network security for complex networks, this chapter teaches a systematic, top-down approach that focuses on planning and policy development before the selection of security products.
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| 9. | - Why IT Pros Need to Learn About IPv6 Security Now: An Interview with Scott Hogg and Eric Vyncke
- Jul 4, 2009
- Linda Leung talks with Scott Hogg and Eric Vyncke about IPv6 transition and security issues.
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| 10. | - IPv6 Internet Security for Your Network
- Jun 4, 2009
- This chapter covers how to secure your network when it is connected to the IPv6 Internet.
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| 11. | - Around the Globe in the Race Against IPv4 Address Depletion
- May 19, 2009
- Linda Leung interviews Jeff Doyle about what he sees as the future for IPv6.
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| 12. | - Securing Wireless Networks
- Jul 2, 2008
- This chapter discusses wireless security, including a checklist for securing Wi-Fi.
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| 13. | - On the Job with a Network Manager
- Jan 12, 2007
- Alexander Clemm presents a number of scenarios to give an impression of the types of activities that are performed by people who run networks for a living. He also provides an overview of some of the tools network managers have at their disposal to help them do their jobs.
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| 14. | - The Basic Uses of TCP/IP Route Maps
- Dec 9, 2005
- Route maps are similar to access lists; they both have criteria for matching the details of certain packets and an action of permitting or denying those packets. This chapter explains the basics of Route Maps. Included are sample exercises to help you practice administration and use of Route Maps.
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| 15. | - Networking First-Step: How to Build a Local (Network) Roadway
- Jun 4, 2004
- Wendell Odom covers networking basics such as how they work, what they're made of, and the benefits of using a structured cabling system.
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| 16. | - New First-Step book Provides an Easy Start to Computer Networking
- May 7, 2004
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