GFI Network Security and PCI Compliance Power Tools

Informationen zum Autor Brien Posey is a freelance technical writer who has received Microsoft's MVP award four times. Over the last 12 years! Brien has published over 4!000 articles and whitepapers! and has written or contributed to over 30 books. In addition to his technical writing! Brien is the cofounder of Relevant Technologies and also serves the IT community through his own Web site. Prior to becoming a freelance author! Brien served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities and as a network administrator for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox. He has also worked as a network administrator for some of the nation's largest insurance companies. Klappentext For system administrators and IT security professionals to properly secure their networks! it is imperative that they utilize tools which constantly scan their networks and report back suspicious activity and/or the presence of known security vulnerabilities. These tasks are also key components for companies who must achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) compliance. GFI Network Security is a market leader in this security scanning! reporting! and federal compliance space. Their products are deployed on over 200!000 networks worldwide and they have over 10!000 worldwide re-sellers. The GFI customer base is also extremely active and tightly-knit. Their forums have over 14!000 registered users and there are currently 18!200 topics under discussion. These are good indicators of both the size of the market and users' need to gain more information on GFI products. This book and CD package is the first reference for these system administrators and security professionals specifically covering GFI's products. The book is being developed with support of the GFi Engineering team! and the accompanying CD contains trial versions of the GFI products covered in the book. In addition! the companion Web site contains dozens of working scripts created using the NSS Scripting Language that readers can download and run to automate complex tasks. Zusammenfassung Reports vulnerabilities so that they can be mitigated before unauthorized intruders can wreck havoc on your network. This book pinpoints the important concepts with examples and screenshots so that systems administrators and security engineers can understand how to get the GFI security tools working quickly and effectively. ...

Klappentext

For system administrators and IT security professionals to properly secure their networks, it is imperative that they utilize tools which constantly scan their networks and report back suspicious activity and/or the presence of known security vulnerabilities. These tasks are also key components for companies who must achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) compliance. GFI Network Security is a market leader in this security scanning, reporting, and federal compliance space. Their products are deployed on over 200,000 networks worldwide and they have over 10,000 worldwide re-sellers.

The GFI customer base is also extremely active and tightly-knit. Their forums have over 14,000 registered users and there are currently 18,200 topics under discussion. These are good indicators of both the size of the market and users' need to gain more information on GFI products.

This book and CD package is the first reference for these system administrators and security professionals specifically covering GFI's products. The book is being developed with support of the GFi Engineering team, and the accompanying CD contains trial versions of the GFI products covered in the book. In addition, the companion Web site contains dozens of working scripts created using the NSS Scripting Language that readers can download and run to automate complex tasks.

Zusammenfassung
Reports vulnerabilities so that they can be mitigated before unauthorized intruders can wreck havoc on your network. This book pinpoints the important concepts with examples and screenshots so that systems administrators and security engineers can understand how to get the GFI security tools working quickly and effectively.

Inhalt
Foreword
Acknowlegments
Chapter 1: Installing GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner
Chapter 2: An Introduction to the GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner Management Console
Chapter 3: Performing a Security Scan
Chapter 4: Analyzing the Scan Results
Chapter 5: Using the ReportPack
Chapter 6: Inventories and Auditing
Chapter 7: Patch Management
Chapter 8: Installing GFI EndPoint Security
Chapter 9: Defining Protection Policies
Chapter 10: Advanced Security Configurations
Chapter 11: End Point Management
Chapter 12: Monitoring Device Usage
Chapter 13: Installing GFI EventsManager
Chapter 14: Browsing the Event Logs
Chapter 15: Event Processing Rules
Chapter 16: Getting the Big Picture
Chapter 17: Installing and Configuring GFI Network Server Monitor
Chapter 18: Working With GFI Network Server Monitor's Configuration Console
Chapter 19: GFI Network Monitor's Additional Components
Index