Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab

Low-cost Solutions for Testing in Virtual and Cloud-based Environments
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-260-45831-2
Verlag: McGraw Hill

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

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Manage your own robust, inexpensive cybersecurity testing environment

This hands-on guide shows clearly how to administer an effective cybersecurity testing lab using affordable technologies and cloud resources. Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab: Low-cost Solutions for Testing in Virtual and Cloud-based Environments fully explains multiple techniques for developing lab systems, including the use of Infrastructure-as-Code, meaning you can write programs to create your labs quickly, without manual steps that could lead to costly and frustrating mistakes. Written by a seasoned IT security professional and academic, this book offers complete coverage of cloud and virtual environments as well as physical networks and automation. Included with the book is access to videos that demystify difficult concepts.

Inside, you will discover how to:

• Gather network requirements and build your cybersecurity testing lab
• Set up virtual machines and physical systems from inexpensive components
• Select and configure the necessary operating systems
• Gain remote access through SSH, RDP, and other remote access protocols
• Efficiently isolate subnets with physical switches, routers, and VLANs
• Analyze the vulnerabilities and challenges of cloud-based infrastructures
• Handle implementation of systems on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Engine
• Maximize consistency and repeatability using the latest automation tools

Autoren/Hrsg.

Messier, Ric

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung

Über Autor(innen)

Messier, Ric
Ric Messier, CEH, CISSP, is an IT security professional with decades of experience working with service provider and enterprise networks. Ric has been a contributor to Hakin9 and PenTest Magazines and has spoken at Interop, New York. Ric currently teaches networking and security courses to graduate students at Brandeis University and to undergraduates at Champlain College. He has also developed two video training titles on ethical hacking and computer forensics.