Hands-on information security lab manual pdf free download

Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Topics from this paper. Information security Cryptography Hands-on computing. Network security Threat computer Communications protocol. Computer security Physical therapy exercises Protocols documentation. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software.

The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation. The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vulnerabilities arise and practical experience tackling them. After presenting the basics of security principles, virtual environments, and network services, the authors explain the core security principles of authentication and access control, logging and log analysis, web application security, certificates and public-key cryptography, and risk management.

The book concludes with appendices on the design of related courses, report templates, and the basics of Linux as needed for the assignments. The authors have successfully taught IT security to students and professionals using the content of this book and the laboratory setting it describes.

The book can be used in undergraduate or graduate laboratory courses, complementing more theoretically oriented courses, and it can also be used for self-study by IT professionals who want hands-on experience in applied information security.

The authors' supporting software is freely available online and the text is supported throughout with exercises. B, Report Template. C, Linux Basics and Tools. D, Answers to Questions. It is very much a workbook, with numerous in-line problems to work on and a nice set of questions and exercises for each chapter; answers appear in an appendix. Many of the exercises involve using specific software to look at events as they occur. It is very readable and well organized, and the questions and exercises are generally very good.

It is an excellent introduction to the subject and would make a good upper-level undergraduate text. It would also be quite useful as a self-study text for someone new to the field.