Hacking For Dummies®
Hacking For Dummies®
Author : Kevin Beaver
Publisher : Wiley Publishing
ISBN: 0-7645-5784-X
Page : 387
Overview
Welcome to Hacking For Dummies. This book outlines computer hacker tricks and techniques — in plain English — to assess the security of your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix the vulnerabilities before malicious and criminal hackers have an opportunity to take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the book. Computer and network security is a complex subject and an evermoving target. You must stay on top of it to ensure your information is protected from the bad guys.
You can implement all the security technologies and other best practices possible, and your information systems may be secure — as far as you know. However, until you understand how hackers think and apply that knowledge to assess your systems from a hacker’s-eye view, you can’t get a true sense of how secure your information really is. Ethical hacking — sometimes referred to as penetration testing or white-hat hacking — is a necessary requirement to ensure that information systems are truly secure on an ongoing basis. This book provides you with the knowledge required to successfully implement an ethical hacking program, along with countermeasures that you can implement to keep malicious hackers out of your business.
Hacking For Dummies is a reference guide on hacking computers and network systems. The ethical hacking techniques are based on the unwritten rules of computer system penetration testing and information-security best practices. This book covers everything from establishing your hacking plan to testing your systems to managing an ongoing ethical hacking program. Realistically, for many networks, operating systems, and applications, thousands of possible hacks exist. I cover the major ones that you should be concerned about. Whether you need to assess security vulnerabilities on a small home-office network, a medium-size corporate network, or across large enterprise systems, Hacking For Dummies provides the information you need.
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