Cyber Operations: Building, Defending, and Attacking Modern Computer Networks

by Mike O'Leary

Know how to set up, defend, and attack computer networks with this revised and expanded second edition. You will learn to configure your network from the ground up, beginning with developing your own private virtual test environment, then setting up your own DNS server and AD infrastructure. You will continue with more advanced network services, web servers, and database servers and you will end by building your own web applications servers, including WordPress and Joomla!. Systems from 2011 through 2017 are covered, including Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016 as well as a range of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, CentOS, Mint, and OpenSUSE. Key defensive techniques are integrated throughout and you will develop situational awareness of your network and build a complete defensive infrastructure, including log servers, network firewalls, web application firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. Of course, you cannot truly understand how to defend a network if you do not know how to attack it, so you will attack your test systems in a variety of ways. You will learn about Metasploit, browser attacks, privilege escalation, pass-the-hash attacks, malware, man-in-the-middle attacks, database attacks, and web application attacks.
What You’ll Learn

Who This Book Is For This study guide is intended for everyone involved in or interested in cybersecurity operations (e.g., cybersecurity professionals, IT professionals, business professionals, and students)

1165 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2015

Reviews

[Aydin Karimzadehasl]

This book is really awesome and written by a author who he is a real hacker but he is white hat hacker who have certifications in hacking area such as security + , CCNA security and etc...
A person who wants and eager to enter to cyber security and hacking subject can read this book and I really recommend this book also this book talked about some methods of hacking such as spoofing and ARPpoising or SQL injection and etc....
by the way for person who wants to participate in exams like ccna security or security + , this can be a very good introduction book for cyber security and hacking exams
I really recommend this for all IT men.
note that for understanding better of this book`s subject , It`s better to have knowledge in windows and specially in Linux.