How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools

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Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ISBN-10: 1-59749-170-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-170-9 Publisher:Amorette Pedersen Acquisitions Editor:Andrew Williams Page Layout and Art: Patricia Lupien Cover Designer: Michael Kavish Indexer: Richard Carlson For information on rights, translations, and bulk sales, contact Matt Pedersen, Commercial Sales Director and Rights, at Syngress Publishing; email [email protected]. 441_HTC_OS_FM.qxd 4/12/07 1:32 PM Page v Contributing Authors Raven Alder is a Senior Security Engineer for IOActive, a consulting firm specializing in network security design and implementation. She specializes in scalable enterprise-level security, with an emphasis on defense in depth. She designs large-scale firewall and IDS systems, and then performs vulnerability assessments and penetration tests to make sure they are performing optimally. In her copious spare time, she teaches network security for LinuxChix.org and checks cryptographic vulnerabilities for the Open Source Vulnerability Database. Raven lives in Seattle, WA. Raven was a contributor to Nessus Network Auditing (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1- 931836-08-6). Josh Burke (CISSP) is an independent information security consultant in Seattle, Washington. He has held positions in networking, systems, and security over the past seven years in the technology, financial, and media sectors. A graduate of the business school at the University of Washington, Josh concentrates on balancing technical and business needs for companies in the many areas of information security. He also promotes an inclusive, positive security philosophy for companies, which encourages communicating the merits and reasons for security policies, rather than educating only on what the policies forbid. Josh is an expert in open-source security applications such as Snort, Ethereal, and Nessus. His research interests include improving the security and resilience of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Network Time Protocol (NTP). He also enjoys reading about the mathematics and history of cryptography, but afterward often knows less about the subject than when he started. Chad Keefer is the founder of Solirix, a computer network security com- pany specializing in Information Assurance. Chad is a former developer of Sourcefire’s RNA product team. Chad has over 13 years of industry experience in security, networking, and software engineering. He has worked v 441_HTC_OS_FM.qxd 4/12/07 1:32 PM Page vi extensively with the federal government and in a wide range of commercial industries to redefine and sharpen the current perception of security. He has also been a lead architect in this space, overseeing initiatives to redesign and build many security infrastructures. Chad holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He currently lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife and daughter. Angela Orebaugh is an industry-recognized security technology visionary and scientist, with over 12 years hands-on experience. She currently performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and develop- ment to advance the state of the art in information systems security.Angela currently participates in several security initiatives for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is the lead scientist for the National Vulnerability Database and author of several NIST Special Publications on security technologies.Angela has over a decade of experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. She has a Masters in Computer Science, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. with a concentration in Information Security at George Mason University.Angela is the author of the Syngress best seller Ethereal Packet Sniffing (ISBN: 1932266828). She has also co-authored the Snort Cookbook and Intrusion Prevention and Active Response: Deploying Network and Host IPS (Syngress; ISBN: 193226647X).Angela is a researcher, writer, and speaker for SANS Institute and faculty for The Institute for Applied Network Security and George Mason University.Angela has a wealth of knowledge from industry, academia, and government from her consulting experience with prominent Fortune 500 companies, the Department of Defense, dot-com startups, and universities. She is a frequently invited speaker at a variety of conferences and security events. Current research interests: intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, data mining, attacker profiling, user behavior analysis, network forensics vi 441_HTC_OS_FM.qxd 4/12/07 1:32 PM Page vii Larry Pesce (CCNA, GCFA Silver, GAWN Silver) is the Manager for Information Services Security at Care New England, a mid-sized healthcare organization in New England. In the last 13 years in the computer industry, Larry has become a jack of all trades; PC repair, Network Engineering, Web Design, Non-Linear Audio and Video production, and Computer Security. Larry is also gainfully employed as a Penetration Tester / Ethical Hacker with Defensive Intuition, a Rhode Island-based security consulting com- pany.A graduate of Roger Williams University in Compute Information Systems, Larry is currently exploring his options for graduate education. In addition to his industry experience, Larry is also a Security Evangelist for the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast at www.pauldotcom.com. Larry is currently completing a work with his PaulDotCom Security Weekly co-host, Paul Asadoorian on hacking the Linksys WRT54G. More of Larry’s writing, guides, and rants can be found on his blog at www.haxorthematrix.com. Eric S.

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