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Security Warrior: Know Your Enemy 1st Edition

by Cyrus Peikari (Author), Anton Chuvakin (Author)
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When it comes to network security, many users and administrators are running scared, and justifiably so. The sophistication of attacks against computer systems increases with each new Internet worm. What's the worst an attacker can do to you? You'd better find out, right? That's what Security Warrior teaches you. Based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, Security Warrior reveals how your systems can be attacked. Covering everything from reverse engineering to SQL attacks, and including topics like social engineering, antiforensics, and common attacks against UNIX and Windows systems, this book teaches you to know your enemy and how to be prepared to do battle. Security Warrior places particular emphasis on reverse engineering. RE is a fundamental skill for the administrator, who must be aware of all kinds of malware that can be installed on his machines -- trojaned binaries, "spyware" that looks innocuous but that sends private data back to its creator, and more. This is the only book to discuss reverse engineering for Linux or Windows CE. It's also the only book that shows you how SQL injection works, enabling you to inspect your database and web applications for vulnerability. Security Warrior is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book covering the art of computer war: attacks against computer systems and their defenses. It's often scary, and never comforting. If you're on the front lines, defending your site against attackers, you need this book. On your shelf--and in your hands.
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    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    February 17, 2004
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.97 x 1.19 x 9.17 inches
  8. Print length
    552 pages
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Dr. Cyrus Peikari is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Airscanner Corporation, a leading mobile security software company. He personally holds several patents in the anti-virus and infosec fields. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, he is a popular speaker at technology and network security conferences. He has co-authored four bestselling security books, two of them as lead author, including Maximum Wireless Security, Windows .Net Server Security Handbook, and Windows Internet Security.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (February 17, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 552 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596005458
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596005450
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.07 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.97 x 1.19 x 9.17 inches
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    Dr. Anton Chuvakin (http://www.chuvakin.org/) is a Research Director at Gartner's Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) Security and Risk Management Strategies team.

    Anton is a recognized security expert in the field of log management, SIEM and PCI DSS compliance. He is an author of books "Security Warrior", "Logging and Log Management" and "PCI Compliance" and a contributor to "Know Your Enemy II", "Information Security Management Handbook" and others. Anton has published dozens of papers on log management, SIEM, correlation, security data analysis, PCI DSS, security management. His blog "Security Warrior" was one of the most popular in the industry.

    In addition, Anton taught classes and presents at many security conferences across the world; he recently addressed audiences in United States, UK, Singapore, Spain, Russia and other countries. He worked on emerging security standards and served on advisory boards of several security start-ups.

    Most recently, Anton was running his own security consulting practice, focusing on logging, SIEM and PCI DSS compliance for security vendors and Fortune 500 organizations. Dr. Anton Chuvakin was formerly a Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Qualys. Previously, Anton worked at LogLogic as a Chief Logging Evangelist, tasked with educating the world about the importance of logging for security, compliance and operations. Before LogLogic, Anton was employed by a security vendor in a strategic product management role. Anton earned his Ph.D. degree from Stony Brook University.

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James M. Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of ground
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2004
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I've grown tired of books that simply inventory hacking tools. These authors delve deep and explain how things work. Awesome!!
This is an amazing book, covering an incredible amount of ground. I had a little trouble following some of the details on IDA Pro, but the authors were very responsive and helpful. This is the kind of book You'll want to read and re-read. I've got the chapters on software Reversing dog-eared already. The book is very well organized and well worth the investment.
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J. J. Kwashnak
4.0 out of 5 stars To know the enemy
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2005
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Security Warrior comes with the subject "Know Your Enemy" written across the top of the cover. In those three words, Peikari and Chuvakin give you the reason to read the book. O'Reilly's books are usually of the highest caliber, and happy to say this is shown in Security Warrior. The book is aimed at the security administrator, or the hard core computer person. While much of the book, and of security writing in general, is directed at UNIX systems there is a decent coverage of the Windows environment, which given its track record is in much more need of security warriors.

What the authors do is to give you the why and how of attacks and various threats, showing you some of the tools that can be used in these actions against you. The reader can then take these tools and turn them against the attackers, finding vulnerabilities first, and using other tools to counteract attacks and minimize damage. The first part looks at attacks at software, showing how reverse engineering can find out a lot more than might be planned as to how the program works. Things can get rather technical here but it's a great introduction to the mechanics of reverse engineering software and shows how someone could go looking for vulnerabilities, and finding out maybe not all the hows of the program, at least potential entry points in the software's operation.

Then it is on to OS and network security, with the focus on UNIX and some Windows Systems. The authors give some practical examples to explain what goes into attacks you commonly hear about - SQL Injection and Overflow attacks - but may not have seen demonstrated with examples. Many of the chapters and sections that are written about could and do fill whole books, but the authors do a very good job of balancing going beyond the surface of the topic without going too deeply down the technical details and examples to overwhelm or bore the reader. This is not a light, breeze through book, but a technical reference guide. It's one that I can see returning to again and again to help brush up understanding of certain topics as they are needed. This book is a very good starting point for overviewing the ideas as well as the mechanics of security attacks and to help you learn how to repulse them and become the security warrior. Know thy enemy is the necessity of the modern world.
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ToasT
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for the Security Professional
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2009
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I found this book to be helpful because it taught me the fundamental security concepts. It gives a good general understanding of the I.T. Security field
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Juniper Belmont
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2010
This book is an excellent introduction into the world of computer security. I was a bit surprised at the contents; the book features many more offensive techniques, like reverse engineering binaries, performing successful stack/heap overflows, attacks on a variety of server/network platforms, and defeating IDS/forensic technologies. I had initially expected the book to be more focused on security defense, which is covered, but certainly not in a typical ratio. I wouldn't complain though, because as is stated in this book several times, a good offense is a good defense. For instance, upon introducing stack overflows, the authors wisely quip how a company could save a great deal of money and embarrassment if its employees found such vulnerabilities before they leak into the wild.

If I did have one bad thing to say about Security Warrior, it's that I happen to know quite a bit about it's entire first section already, so I found parts quite tiresome. Having already read such texts as Chris Eagle's "The Ida Pro Book", this book's section on disassembly seemed a paltry introduction in comparison; however, it seems this amount would be about right to gently introduce someone to the subject, were they not already aware of this field of computer security knowledge.

All in all, security warrior is a good introductory text to a wide variety of computer security related topics, and hopefully the reader will leave interested in implementing at least a few of the defensive strategies listed, or want to become more familiar with some of the more interesting attack vectors. Further reading/knowledge will be needed other than the information found here in order to do useful security work, but, Security Warrior certainly at least gets the ball rolling and the interest piqued.
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John
1.0 out of 5 stars Technical accuracy escapes them.
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2007
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This book contains some okay level of steering, but that's about it. The technical accuracy I see exhibited here can only be rivaled by your grandma explaining Windows system internals. It doesn't end at just the author's confusion of C and C++ (classic "strcpy() and other C++ functions" babble); the very explanation of why a program crashes, or how an attack works, or how variables and buffers get created is flat wrong.

I had to stop reading this in the buffer overflow chapter. Highlights include the flawed interpretation of the error message from when bigmac() returned (it returned to non-mapped memory, the book says it read past the end of a string); the horrible explanation of how buffers work (buffers are not simple variables, and variables do not allocate multiple chunks of memory for themselves as explained); and the incorrect description of the return-to-text attack (returned to existing code, but the book says it's run code you injected onto the stack). After reading a stream of these such inaccuracies, I stopped looking for something that actually came out right.

The buffer overflow chapter can easily be replaced with Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. Read that instead. It's also got better networking and WEP attack explanations.
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