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Learning Network Forensics

You're reading from Learning Network Forensics Identify and safeguard your network against both internal and external threats, hackers, and malware attacks

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782174905

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Samir Datt

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Becoming Network 007s FREE CHAPTER

2. Laying Hands on the Evidence

3. Capturing & Analyzing Data Packets

4. Going Wireless

5. Tracking an Intruder on the Network

6. Connecting the Dots – Event Logs

7. Proxies, Firewalls, and Routers

8. Smuggling Forbidden Protocols – Network Tunneling

9. Investigating Malware – Cyber Weapons of the Internet

10. Closing the Deal – Solving the Case

Index

Types of tunneling protocols

As we have learned in the previous sections, a tunnel is a way of shipping a foreign protocol across a network that will not support it directly. Let's take a look at the different tunneling protocols and their characteristics to see how this is done.

The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol is also known as PPTP. This was created by a consortium including Microsoft and other companies. PPTP is a fast protocol that, besides Windows, is also available to Linux and Mac users.

While PPTP does not have an inbuilt capability to provide traffic encryption, it relies on the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) to provide security measures during transmission.

PPTP allows traffic with different protocols to be encrypted and then encapsulated in an IP datagram to be sent across an IP network such as the Internet.

PPTP encapsulates PPP frames in the IP datagrams using a modified version of Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE). A TCP connection is used...

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Authors (1)

Datt

Datt

Samir Datt has been dabbling with digital investigations since 1988, which was around the time he solved his first case with the help of an old PC and Lotus 123. He is the Founder CEO of Foundation Futuristic Technologies (P) Ltd, better known as ForensicsGuru.com. He is widely credited with evangelizing computer forensics in the Indian subcontinent and has personally trained thousands of law enforcement officers in the area. He has the distinction of starting the computer forensics industry in South Asia and setting up India's first computer forensic lab in the private sector. He is consulted by law enforcement agencies and private sector on various technology-related investigative issues. He has extensive experience in training thousands of investigators as well as examining a large number of digital sources of evidence in both private and government investigations.

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