Practical Unix and Internet Security, 2nd Edition

Practical Unix and Internet Security, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by Simson Garfinkel (Author), Gene Spafford (Author)

# Paperback: 1000 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly; 2 edition (April 1, 1996)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1565921488
# ISBN-13: 978-1565921481

Product Description

When Practical UNIX Security was first published in 1991, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a UNIX system administrator and user from disaster. This second edition is a complete rewrite of the original book. It’s packed with twice the pages and offers even more practical information for UNIX users and administrators. It covers features of many types of UNIX systems, including SunOS, Solaris, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Linux, and others. The first edition was practical, entertaining, and full of useful scripts, tips, and warnings. This edition is all those things — and more. Contents include UNIX and security basics (password, the filesystem, the superuser, cryptography), system administrator tasks (backups, integrity checking, log files, programmed threats, physical security), network security (modems, UUCP, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, RFS, network monitoring, Kerberos, DCE, firewalls), and appendixes containing checklists and helpful summaries.

From the Publisher
When Practical UNIX Security was first published in 1991, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a UNIX system administrator and user from disaster. This second edition is a complete rewrite of the original book. It’s packed with twice the pages and offers even more practical information for UNIX users and administrators. In it you’ll find coverage of features of many types of UNIX systems, including SunOS, Solaris, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Linux, and others. The first edition was practical, entertaining, and full of useful scripts, tips, and warnings. This edition is all those things — and more. If you are a UNIX system administrator or user in this security-conscious age, you need this book. It’s a practical guide that spells out, in readable and entertaining language, the threats, the system vulnerabilities, and the countermeasures you can adopt to protect your UNIX system, network, and Internet connection. It’s complete — covering both host and network security — and doesn’t require that you be a programmer or a UNIX guru to use it. Practical UNIX & Internet Security describes the issues, approaches, and methods for implementing security measures. It covers UNIX basics, the details of security, the ways that intruders can get into your system, and the ways you can detect them, clean up after them, and even prosecute them if they do get in. Filled with practical scripts, tricks, and warnings, Practical UNIX & Internet Security tells you everything you need to know to make your UNIX system as secure as it possible can be. Contents include: Part I: Computer Security Basics. Introduction and security policies. Part II: User Responsibilities. Users and their passwords, groups, the superuser, the UNIX filesystem, and cryptography. Part III: System Administrator Responsibilities. Backups, defending accounts, integrity checking, log files, programmed threats, physical security, and personnel security. Part IV: Network and Internet Security: telephone security, UUCP, TCP/IP networks, TCP/IP services, WWW, RPC, NIS, NIS+, Kerberos, and NFS. Part V: Advanced Topics: firewalls, wrappers, proxies, and secure programming. Part VI: Handling Security Incidents: discovering a breakin, U.S. law, and trust. VII: Appendices. UNIX system security checklist, important files, UNIX processes, paper and electronic sources, security organizations, and table of IP services.

About the Author
Simson Garfinkel is a computer consultant, science writer, contributing editor at WIRED Magazine, editor-at-large for Internet Underground, and senior editor at SunExpert magazine; he is also affiliated with many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (O’Reilly & Associates), NeXTStep Programming (Springer-Verlag), and The UNIX-Haters Handbook (IDG). Mr. Garfinkel writes frequently about science and technology, as well as about their social impact. Eugene H. Spafford is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is the founder and director of the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory at Purdue and is also associated with the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) there. Professor Spafford is an active researcher in the areas of software testing and debugging, applied security, and professional computing issues. He was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations. He is the coauthor of Practical UNIX Security (O’Reilly & Associates, second edition, 1995) and has also coauthored a widely praised book on computer viruses. He supervised the development of the first COPS and Tripwire security audit software packages, and he has been a frequently invited speaker at computer ethics and computer security events around the world. He is on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and is active in many professional societies, including ACM, Usenix, IEEE (as a Senior Member), and the IEEE Computer Society. He is involved with several working groups with IFIP Technical Committee 11 on Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems.

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