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Chris McNab is the technical director of Matta, a vendor-independent security consulting outfit based in the United Kingdom. Since 2000, Chris has presented and run applied hacking courses across Europe, training a large number of financial, retail, and government clients in practical attack and penetration techniques, so that they can assess and protect their own networks effectively. Chris speaks at a number of security conferences and seminars, and is routinely called to comment on security events and other breaking news. He has appeared on television and radio stations in the UK (including BBC 1 and Radio 4), and in a number of publications and computing magazines. Responsible for the provision of security assessment services at Matta, Chris and his team undertake Internet-based, internal, application, and wireless security assessment work, providing clients with practical and sound technical advice relating to secure network design and hardening strategies. Chris boasts a 100% success rate when compromising the networks of multinational corporations and financial services companies over the last five years.
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- Series: Network Security Assessment
- Paperback: 508 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Second Edition edition (November 8, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596510306
- ISBN-13: 978-0596510305
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7 x 9 inches
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Free Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network
"Network Security Assessment" (NSA) is the latest in a long line of vulnerability assessment / penetration testing books, stretching back to "Maximum Security" in 1997 and "Hacking Exposed" shortly thereafter. NSA is also the second major security title from O'Reilly this year, soon to be followed by "Network Security Hacks." NSA is a good book with some new material to offer, but don't expect to find deep security insight in this or similar assessment books.
[A review of the 2nd EDITION. This review was written on 3 December 2007.]
Over 3 years has elapsed since McNab wrote his first edition. Much of that edition is still valid. Sadly, in a way, because it means that despite the best efforts of that book and others of its ilk, we remain plagued with network attackers and insecure systems.
One of the constants between the editions is the focus on IPv4. Still! IPv6 only gets a glancing mention in the second edition. While everyone recognises that IPv4 will get exhausted of addresses, the transition to v6 still gets postponed. McNab ruminates that this very transition will of its own accord generate compromises. I wish he'd expand on this remark. But maybe there is yet little market reason to do so.
Another thing that does not get mentioned is phishing. In early 2004, it was still a minor threat. It has since blossomed into a chronic problem. But McNab is correct to ignore it, up to a point. He believes, as apparently does most of the IT security field, that phishing is largely a social engineering problem. That it is not a technical problem of patching bugs, per se. Yet viewed properly, phishing is a network attack that uses social engineering, and it is amenable to technical countermeasures that involve, in part, network actions.
I especially favour this edition, for the reasons in the preceding paragraph. In 2004, I and a co-inventor, Marvin Shannon, devised a US Patent Pending against phishing. The second edition of McNab's book came out in November 2007, and by not discussing phishing, it buttresses our claims of non-obviousness, 3 years after our filing.
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