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of "Nessus, Snort, & Ethereal Power Tools"
A Guide to Customizing Open Source Security Applications
Contact: Amy Pedersen
781-681-5151 x12
amy@syngress.com
Rockland, MA October 27, 2005--Syngress Publishing, Inc., today
announced the publication of Nessus, Snort, & Ethereal Power Tools (ISBN:
1597490202), a technical guide to coding tools that detect malicious
traffic and scan for vulnerabilities.
"If you have Nessus, Snort, and Ethereal up and running and now you're
ready to customize and code these tools to their fullest potential, this
book is for you," said Amy Pedersen, Vice President of Marketing,
Syngress Publishing, "The authors of this book provide the inside scoop
on coding the most effective and efficient Snort rules, Nessus plug-ins
with NASL, and Ethereal wiretap, dissector, and tap modules."
Each section of the book contains dozens of working code examples. These
are available for download from www.syngress.com/solutions.
BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1597490202
PRICE: $39.95 U.S.
PAGE COUNT: 448 PP
Inside the book coverage:
Nessus Power Tools:
-Create Extensions and Custom Tests: Customize NASL and extend the
capabilities of Nessus using Include Files; Process Launching and
Results Analysis; and the Nessus Knowledge Base.
-Debug Newly Created or Existing NASLs: Use the command-line interpreter
or the Nessus daemon to test the validity of code and vulnerability tests.
-Automate NASL Creation: Automate and simplify creation of complex NASLs
using Plugin Templates Perl's CGI Module, and XML Parsing.
Snort Power Tools:
-Create Custom Rules: Write, test, and optimize advanced rules to work on
even the most complex traffic.
-Master Plugins and Preprocessors: Write detection plugins, output plugins,
and preprocessors to optimize speed and efficiency of rules.
-Patch Snort to Enhance and Customize Performance: Use Snort AV (Active
Verification) to reduce false positives and Snort-Wireless to provide
layer 2 Wireless IDS functionality.
Ethereal Power Tools:
-Enable Ethereal to Read New Data Sources: Use libpcap to capture packets,
text2pcap to convert from hex dumps to the pcap format, and techniques
for reverse engineering an undocumented packet capture file format and
writing a wiretap module.
-Program Your Own Protocol Dissector: Set up and program advanced dissectors
either linked into Ethereal or as a plugin.
-Create and Customize Ethereal Reports: Unlock the power of Ethereal by
reporting with a line-mode tap module; a GUI tap module; grep and awk
commands; and Python programs to parse tethereal's verbose output and
the PDML (XML) output of tethereal.
About the Authors
Jay Beale, Series Editor, is an information security specialist, well
known for his work on mitigation technology, specifically in the form of
operating system and application hardening. He's written two of the most
popular tools in this space: Bastille Linux, a lockdown tool that
introduced a vital security-training component, and the Center for
Internet Security's Unix Scoring Tool. Both are used worldwide throughout
private industry and government. Through Bastille and his work with CIS,
Jay has provided leadership in the Linux system hardening space,
participating in efforts to set, audit, and implement standards for
Linux/Unix security within industry and government. He also focuses his
energies on the OVAL project, where he works with government and industry
to standardize and improve the field of vulnerability assessment. Jay is
also a member of the Honeynet Project, working on tool development.
Jay has served as an invited speaker at a variety of conferences
worldwide, as well as government symposia. He's written for Information
Security Magazine, SecurityFocus, and the now-defunct SecurityPortal.com.
He has worked on many books in the information security space including
best-sellers Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection (Syngress, ISBN:
1-931836-04-3), Ethereal Packet Sniffing (Syngress, ISBN: 1-932266-82-8),
and Nessus Network Auditing (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-08-6) from his Open
Source Security Series. Jay is also a contributing author to the
best-selling Stealing the Network Series of technical fiction having
contributed to Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent (Syngress,
ISBN: 1-931836-05-1) and Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity
(Syngress, ISBN: 1-597490-06-7).
Background Information
Syngress Publishing (www.syngress.com), headquartered in Rockland,
Massachusetts, is an independent publisher of print and electronic
reference materials for Information Technology professionals seeking skill
enhancement and career advancement. Distributed throughout Europe, Asia,
and the U.S. and Canada, Syngress titles have been translated into twenty
languages. The Company's pioneering customer support program,
solutions@syngress.com, extends the value of every Syngress title with
regular information updates and customer-driven author forums. For more
information on Syngress products, contact Amy Pedersen at 781-681-5151 or
email amy@syngress.com. Syngress books are distributed in the United
States and Canada by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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