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Linux firewalls : attack detection and response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort
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San Francisco : No Starch Press, 2007
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xix, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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9781593271411

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System administrators need to stay ahead of new security vulnerabilities that leave their networks exposed every day. A firewall and an intrusion detection systems (IDS) are two important weapons in that fight, enabling you to proactively deny access and monitor network traffic for signs of an attack. Linux Firewalls discusses the technical details of the iptables firewall and the Netfilter framework that are built into the Linux kernel, and it explains how they provide strong filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT), state tracking, and application layer inspection capabilities that rival many commercial tools. You'll learn how to deploy iptables as an IDS with psad and fwsnort and how to build a strong, passive authentication layer around iptables with fwknop. Concrete examples illustrate concepts such as firewall log analysis and policies, passive network authentication and authorization, exploit packet traces, Snort ruleset emulation, and more with coverage of these topics: P


Author Notes

Michael Rash is a Security Architect on the Dragon Intrusion Detection System with Enterasys Networks, Inc., and is a frequent contributor to open source projects. As the creator of psad, fwknop, and fwsnort, Rash is an expert on firewalls, IDSs, OS fingerprinting, and the Snort rules language. He is co-author of the book Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection , lead-author and technical editor of the book Intrusion Prevention and Active Response , and has written security articles for Linux Journal , SysAdmin , and ;login: .


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Care And Feeding Of Iptables
Chapter 2 Network Layer Attacks And Defense
Chapter 3 Transport Layer Attacks And Defense
Chapter 4 Application Layer Attacks And Defense
Chapter 5 Introducing Psad: The Port Scan Attack Detector
Chapter 6 Psad Operations: Detecting Suspicious Traffic
Chapter 7 Advanced Psad Topics: From Signature Matching To Os Fingerprinting
Chapter 8 Active Response With Psad
Chapter 9 Translating Snort Rules Into Iptables Rules
Chapter 10 Deploying Fwsnort
Chapter 11 Combining Psad And Fwsnort
Chapter 12 Port Knocking Vs. Single Packet Authorization
Chapter 13 Introducing Fwknop
Chapter 14 Visualizing Iptables Logsattack Spoofinga Complete Fwsnort Scriptcolophon