Web Application Defender's Cookbook

Web Application Defender's Cookbook
Author: Ryan C. Barnett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118417054

Defending your web applications against hackers and attackers The top-selling book Web Application Hacker's Handbook showed how attackers and hackers identify and attack vulnerable live web applications. This new Web Application Defender's Cookbook is the perfect counterpoint to that book: it shows you how to defend. Authored by a highly credentialed defensive security expert, this new book details defensive security methods and can be used as courseware for training network security personnel, web server administrators, and security consultants. Each "recipe" shows you a way to detect and defend against malicious behavior and provides working code examples for the ModSecurity web application firewall module. Topics include identifying vulnerabilities, setting hacker traps, defending different access points, enforcing application flows, and much more. Provides practical tactics for detecting web attacks and malicious behavior and defending against them Written by a preeminent authority on web application firewall technology and web application defense tactics Offers a series of "recipes" that include working code examples for the open-source ModSecurity web application firewall module Find the tools, techniques, and expert information you need to detect and respond to web application attacks with Web Application Defender's Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Protecting Users.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cookbook

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Cookbook
Author: Sasha Kranjac
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2022-07-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 180107044X

Effectively secure their cloud and hybrid infrastructure, how to centrally manage security, and improve organizational security posture Key Features • Implement and optimize security posture in Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments • Understand Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its features • Protect workloads using Microsoft Defender for Cloud's threat detection and prevention capabilities Book Description Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud security posture management solution that enables security administrators to build cyber defense for their Azure and non-Azure resources by providing both recommendations and security protection capabilities. This book will start with a foundational overview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its core capabilities. Then, the reader is taken on a journey from enabling the service, selecting the correct tier, and configuring the data collection, to working on remediation. Next, we will continue with hands-on guidance on how to implement several security features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, finishing with monitoring and maintenance-related topics, gaining visibility in advanced threat protection in distributed infrastructure and preventing security failures through automation. By the end of this book, you will know how to get a view of your security posture and where to optimize security protection in your environment as well as the ins and outs of Microsoft Defender for Cloud. What you will learn • Understand Microsoft Defender for Cloud features and capabilities • Understand the fundamentals of building a cloud security posture and defending your cloud and on-premises resources • Implement and optimize security in Azure, multi-cloud and hybrid environments through the single pane of glass - Microsoft Defender for Cloud • Harden your security posture, identify, track and remediate vulnerabilities • Improve and harden your security and services security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud benchmarks and best practices • Detect and fix threats to services and resources Who this book is for This book is for Security engineers, systems administrators, security professionals, IT professionals, system architects, and developers. Anyone whose responsibilities include maintaining security posture, identifying, and remediating vulnerabilities, and securing cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Anyone who is willing to learn about security in Azure and to build secure Azure and hybrid infrastructure, to improve their security posture in Azure, hybrid and multi-cloud environments by leveraging all the features within Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

The Web Was Done by Amateurs

The Web Was Done by Amateurs
Author: Marco Aiello
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319900080

This book stems from the desire to systematize and put down on paper essential historical facts about the Web, a system that has undoubtedly changed our lives in just a few decades. But how did it manage to become such a central pillar of modern society, such an indispensable component of our economic and social interactions? How did it evolve from its roots to today? Which competitors, if any, did it have to beat out? Who are the heroes behind its success? These are the sort of questions that the book addresses. Divided into four parts, it follows and critically reflects on the Web’s historical path. “Part I: The Origins” covers the prehistory of the Web. It examines the technology that predated the Web and fostered its birth. In turn, “Part II: The Web” describes the original Web proposal as defined in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and the most relevant technologies associated with it. “Part III: The Patches” combines a historical reconstruction of the Web’s evolution with a more critical analysis of its original definition and the necessary changes made to the initial design. In closing, “Part IV: System Engineering” approaches the Web as an engineered infrastructure and reflects on its technical and societal success. The book is unique in its approach, combining historical facts with the technological evolution of the Web. It was written with a technologically engaged and knowledge-thirsty readership in mind, ranging from curious daily Web users to undergraduate computer science and engineering students.

AppSensor Guide

AppSensor Guide
Author: OWASP Foundation
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1312158484

The AppSensor Project defines a conceptual technology-agnostic framework and methodology that offers guidance to implement intrusion detection and automated response into software applications. This OWASP guide describes the concept, how to make it happen, and includes illustrative case studies, demonstration implementations and full reference materials.

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
Author: Dafydd Stuttard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118079612

This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications. The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results. The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger", Dafydd developed the popular Burp Suite of web application hack tools.

PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Author: Jim Seaman
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484258088

Gain a broad understanding of how PCI DSS is structured and obtain a high-level view of the contents and context of each of the 12 top-level requirements. The guidance provided in this book will help you effectively apply PCI DSS in your business environments, enhance your payment card defensive posture, and reduce the opportunities for criminals to compromise your network or steal sensitive data assets. Businesses are seeing an increased volume of data breaches, where an opportunist attacker from outside the business or a disaffected employee successfully exploits poor company practices. Rather than being a regurgitation of the PCI DSS controls, this book aims to help you balance the needs of running your business with the value of implementing PCI DSS for the protection of consumer payment card data. Applying lessons learned from history, military experiences (including multiple deployments into hostile areas), numerous PCI QSA assignments, and corporate cybersecurity and InfoSec roles, author Jim Seaman helps you understand the complexities of the payment card industry data security standard as you protect cardholder data. You will learn how to align the standard with your business IT systems or operations that store, process, and/or transmit sensitive data. This book will help you develop a business cybersecurity and InfoSec strategy through the correct interpretation, implementation, and maintenance of PCI DSS. What You Will Learn Be aware of recent data privacy regulatory changes and the release of PCI DSS v4.0Improve the defense of consumer payment card data to safeguard the reputation of your business and make it more difficult for criminals to breach securityBe familiar with the goals and requirements related to the structure and interdependencies of PCI DSSKnow the potential avenues of attack associated with business payment operationsMake PCI DSS an integral component of your business operationsUnderstand the benefits of enhancing your security cultureSee how the implementation of PCI DSS causes a positive ripple effect across your business Who This Book Is For Business leaders, information security (InfoSec) practitioners, chief information security managers, cybersecurity practitioners, risk managers, IT operations managers, business owners, military enthusiasts, and IT auditors

Microsoft Intune Cookbook

Microsoft Intune Cookbook
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2024-01-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1805121219

Get started with Microsoft Intune and explore its many facets, including task automation with Microsoft Graph Key Features Create and configure your new mobile device management (MDM) environment Become an Intune pro by mastering compliance policies, monitoring techniques, reporting practices, and application deployment procedures Learn how to manage Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS devices using Intune Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionMicrosoft Intune is a cloud-managed mobile device management (MDM) tool that empowers you to manage your end-user device estate across various platforms. While it is an excellent platform, the initial setup and configuration can be a daunting process, and mistakes made early on can be more challenging to resolve later. This book addresses these issues by guiding you through the end-to-end configuration of an Intune environment, incorporating best practices and utilizing the latest functionalities. In addition to setting up your environment, you’ll delve into the Microsoft Graph platform to understand the underlying mechanisms behind the web GUI. This knowledge will enable you to automate a significant portion of your daily tasks using PowerShell. By the end of this book, you’ll have established an Intune environment that supports Windows, Apple iOS, Apple macOS, and Android devices. You’ll possess the expertise to add new configurations, policies, and applications, tailoring an environment to your specific requirements. Additionally, you’ll have the ability to troubleshoot any issues that may arise and package and deploy your company applications. Overall, this book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn how to use Microsoft Intune to manage their organization's end-user devices.What you will learn Set up your Intune tenant and associated platform connections Create and deploy device policies to your organization's devices Find out how to package and deploy your applications Explore different ways to monitor and report on your environment Leverage PowerShell to automate your daily tasks Understand the underlying workings of the Microsoft Graph platform and how it interacts with Intune Who this book is for This book is for IT professionals, end-user device administrators, and system administrators looking to transition to cloud-managed devices or enhance their current environment.

Web Security Testing Cookbook

Web Security Testing Cookbook
Author: Paco Hope
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596554036

Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate how developers and testers can check for the most common web security issues, while conducting unit tests, regression tests, or exploratory tests. Unlike ad hoc security assessments, these recipes are repeatable, concise, and systematic-perfect for integrating into your regular test suite. Recipes cover the basics from observing messages between clients and servers to multi-phase tests that script the login and execution of web application features. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build tests pinpointed at Ajax functions, as well as large multi-step tests for the usual suspects: cross-site scripting and injection attacks. This book helps you: Obtain, install, and configure useful-and free-security testing tools Understand how your application communicates with users, so you can better simulate attacks in your tests Choose from many different methods that simulate common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and manipulating hidden form fields Make your tests repeatable by using the scripts and examples in the recipes as starting points for automated tests Don't live in dread of the midnight phone call telling you that your site has been hacked. With Web Security Testing Cookbook and the free tools used in the book's examples, you can incorporate security coverage into your test suite, and sleep in peace.

Terraform Cookbook

Terraform Cookbook
Author: Mikael Krief
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 635
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1804619639

Explore how to provision, manage, and scale your infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Get up and running with the latest version of Terraform (v1+) CLI Discover how to deploy Kubernetes resources with Terraform Learn how to troubleshoot common Terraform issues Book DescriptionHashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has changed how we define and provision data center infrastructure with the launch of Terraform, a top-tier product for building Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Terraform Cookbook shows you how to leverage Terraform to manage complex infrastructure with ease. This new edition has been updated to include real-world examples for provisioning Azure, AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform. You'll delve into manual and automated testing with Terraform configurations, creating and managing a balanced, efficient, and reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules. You'll learn how to automate the deployment of Terraform configuration with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Besides that, several new chapters have been added that describe the use of Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes, examine advanced topics on GitOps practices, and explain how to test Terraform configurations using different tools to check code and security compliance. The final chapter covers troubleshooting common Terraform issues and provides solutions for frequently encountered errors. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills needed to get the most value out of Terraform and to effectively manage your infrastructure.What you will learn Use Terraform to build and run cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure using IaC best practices Adapt the Terraform command line adapted to appropriate use cases Automate the deployment of Terraform confi guration with CI/CD Discover manipulation of the Terraform state by adding or removing resources Explore Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes deployment, advanced topics on GitOps practices, and Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Add and apply test code and compliance security in Terraform configuration Debug and troubleshoot common Terraform errors Who this book is for This book is for developers, operators, and DevOps engineers looking to improve their workflow and use Infrastructure as Code. Experience with Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, shell scripting, and DevOps practices is required to get the most out of this Terraform book.