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Learn to detect and prevent hacking reconnaissance

Category: Security, Networking and Communications

Overview This sample chapter, taken from Penetration Testing and Network Defense, examines how you can discover live hosts on your target network by using various information-gathering techniques.

Learn best practices for the detection and prevention of reconnaissance techniques.

This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Penetration Testing and Network Defense, discusses the value of reconnaissance. The goal of reconnaissance is to discover the following information:

IP addresses of hosts on a target network
Accessible User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ports on target systems
Operating systems on target systems

Title: Penetration Testing and Network Defense
ISBN: 1587052083
Published: October 2005
Author: Andrew Whitaker, Daniel Newman
Chapter: Chapter 5: Performing Host Reconnaissance
Published by Cisco Press

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Publisher: TechRepublic
File Format: PDF
Date Published: May 19, 2006
Format: White Papers
Topics: Network Security, Anti-Hacking, TCP - IP

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