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Network Protocols for Security Professionals

You're reading from   Network Protocols for Security Professionals Probe and identify network-based vulnerabilities and safeguard against network protocol breaches

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789953480
Length 580 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Deepanshu Khanna Deepanshu Khanna
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Yoram Orzach Yoram Orzach
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Protecting the Network – Technologies, Protocols, Vulnerabilities, and Tools
2. Chapter 1: Data Centers and the Enterprise Network Architecture and its Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Network Protocol Structures and Operations 4. Chapter 3: Security Protocols and Their Implementation 5. Chapter 4: Using Network Security Tools, Scripts, and Code 6. Chapter 5: Finding Protocol Vulnerabilities 7. Part 2: Network, Network Devices, and Traffic Analysis-Based Attacks
8. Chapter 6: Finding Network-Based Attacks 9. Chapter 7: Detecting Device-Based Attacks 10. Chapter 8: Network Traffic Analysis and Eavesdropping 11. Chapter 9: Using Behavior Analysis and Anomaly Detection 12. Part 3: Network Protocols – How to Attack and How to Protect
13. Chapter 10: Discovering LAN, IP, and TCP/UDP-Based Attacks 14. Chapter 11: Implementing Wireless Network Security 15. Chapter 12: Attacking Routing Protocols 16. Chapter 13: DNS Security 17. Chapter 14: Securing Web and Email Services 18. Chapter 15: Enterprise Applications Security – Databases and Filesystems 19. Chapter 16: IP Telephony and Collaboration Services Security 20. Assessments 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

DNS Security

In the previous chapter, we learned about various routing protocols, network traffic flow, and common attacks. This chapter talks about a different but very interesting and important network protocol – the Domain Name System (DNS), a very familar term for Information Technology (IT) teams, as they deal with common DNS problems in their day-to-day lives.

DNS technology arose in the early 80s when it was very difficult for users to remember Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Back then, domain names mapping against each IP address were added to a hosts file, but it was very difficult to maintain every entry in this as it got larger day by day. Hence, a centralized dynamic approach was discovered called DNS, which we are going to learn about in this chapter.

This chapter starts with an explanation of the DNS protocol, how DNS works, various loopholes, and countermeasures that can be implemented to secure the DNS protocol from various attacks.

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