PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress; 3rd edition (August 27, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159749948X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597499484

eBook Description:

PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance

  • Provides a clear explanation of PCI.
  • Provides practical case studies, fraud studies, and analysis of PCI.
  • The first book to address version 2.0 updates to the PCI DSS, security strategy to keep your infrastructure PCI compliant.

PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance

The credit card industry established the PCI Data Security Standards to provide a minimum standard for how vendors should protect data to ensure it is not stolen by fraudsters. PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance, provides the information readers need to understand the current PCI Data Security standards, which have recently been updated to version 2.0, and how to effectively implement security within your company to be compliant with the credit card industry guidelines and protect sensitive and personally identifiable information. Security breaches continue to occur on a regular basis, affecting millions of customers and costing companies millions of dollars in fines and reparations. That doesn’t include the effects such security breaches have on the reputation of the companies that suffer attacks. PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliancehelps readers avoid costly breaches and inefficient compliance initiatives to keep their infrastructure secure. Download eBook Free »

Hacking Web Apps: Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress; 1st edition (September 12, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159749951X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597499514

eBook Description:

Hacking Web Apps: Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems

  • More and more data, from finances to photos, is moving into web applications. How much can you trust that data to be accessible from a web browser anywhere and safe at the same time?
  • Some of the most damaging hacks to a web site can be executed with nothing more than a web browser and a little knowledge of HTML.
  • Learn about the most common threats and how to stop them, including HTML Injection, XSS, Cross Site Request Forgery, SQL Injection, Breaking Authentication Schemes, Logic Attacks, Web of Distrust, Browser Hacks and many more.

How can an information security professional keep up with all of the hacks, attacks, and exploits on the Web? One way is to read Hacking Web Apps: Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems. The content for this book has been selected by author Mike Shema to make sure that we are covering the most vicious attacks out there. Not only does Mike let you in on the anatomy of these attacks, but he also tells you how to get rid of these worms, trojans, and botnets and how to defend against them in the future. Countermeasures are detailed so that you can fight against similar attacks as they evolve. Download eBook Free »

Keys to the Kingdom: Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress; 1st edition (October 8, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597499838
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597499835

eBook Description:

Keys to the Kingdom: Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks

  • Excellent companion to Deviant Ollam’s Practical Lock Picking.
  • Understand the typical failings of common security hardware in order to avoid these weaknesses.
  • Learn advanced methods of physical attack in order to be more successful with penetration testing.
  • Detailed full-color photos in the book make learning easy, and companion website is filled with invalualble training videos from Dev!

Lockpicking has become a popular topic with many in the security community. While many have chosen to learn the fine art of opening locks without keys, few people explore the fascinating methods of attack that are possible WITH keys. Keys to the Kingdom: Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks addresses the topics of impressioning, master key escalation, skeleton keys, and bumping attacks that go well beyond any treatment of these topics in the author’s previous book, Practical Lock Picking.

This material is all new and focuses on locks currently in use as well as ones that have recently emerged on the market. Hackers and pen testers or persons tasked with defending their infrastructure and property from invasion will find these techniques uniquely valuable. As with Deviant Ollam’s previous book, Practical Lock Picking, Keys to the Kingdom includes full-color versions of all diagrams and photographs. Check out the companion website which includes instructional videos that provide readers with a full-on training seminar from the author. Download eBook Free »

CISSP Study Guide, Second Edition

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress; 2nd edition (September 12, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597499617
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597499613

eBook Description:

CISSP Study Guide, Second Edition

  • Provides the most complete and effective study guide to prepare you for passing the CISSP exam contains only what you need to pass the test, with no fluff!
  • Eric Conrad has prepared hundreds of professionals for passing the CISSP exam through SANS, a popular and well-known organization for information security professionals.
  • Covers all of the new information in the Common Body of Knowledge updated in January 2012, and also provides two practice exams, tiered end-of-chapter questions for a gradual learning curve, and a complete self-test appendix.

The CISSP certification is the most prestigious, globally-recognized, vendor neutral exam for information security professionals. The newest edition of this acclaimed study guide is aligned to cover all of the material included in the newest version of the exam’s Common Body of Knowledge. The ten domains are covered completely and as concisely as possible with an eye to acing the exam.

Each of the ten domains has its own chapter that includes specially designed pedagogy to aid the test-taker in passing the exam, including: Clearly stated exam objectives; Unique terms/Definitions; Exam Warnings; Learning by Example; Hands-On Exercises; Chapter ending questions. Furthermore, special features include: Two practice exams; Tiered chapter ending questions that allow for a gradual learning curve; and a self-test appendix. Download eBook Free »

Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems: Digital Forensics Field Guides

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress; 1st edition (June 27, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597494720
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597494724

eBook Description:

Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems: Digital Forensics Field Guides

  • A condensed hand-held guide complete with on-the-job tasks and checklists
  • Specific for Windows-based systems, the largest running OS in the world
  • Authors are world-renowned leaders in investigating and analyzing malicious code

Dissecting the dark side of the Internet with its infectious worms, botnets, rootkits, and Trojan horse programs (known as malware) is a treaterous condition for any forensic investigator or analyst. Written by information security experts with real-world investigative experience, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems is a ”tool” with checklists for specific tasks, case studies of difficult situations, and expert analyst tips.

Dissecting the dark side of the Internet with its infectious worms, botnets, rootkits, and Trojan horse programs (known as malware) is a treaterous condition for any forensic investigator or analyst. Written by information security experts with real-world investigative experience, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems is a ”tool” with checklists for specific tasks, case studies of difficult situations, and expert analyst tips. Download eBook Free »

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 410 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 25, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849688346
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849688345

eBook Description:

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

  • A complete step-by-step Hyper-V deployment guide, covering all Hyper-V features for configuration and management best practices
  • Understand multi-tenancy, flexible architecture, scalability, and high availability features of new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
  • Learn Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch, Virtual Machine Migration, Hyper-V Storage, Hyper-V Failover Clustering, and also System Center VMM and DPM for management, backup, and recovery

Building Hyper-V infrastructure with secured multitenancy, flexible infrastructure, scalability, and high availability

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform is a comprehensive guide, which starts itself from basic virtualization and server consolidation concepts, and then goes deeper for discussing advanced topics, such as a Hyper-V scalability, failover, and virtual machine migration. This book is an ideal choice for those who are stepping into Hyper-V world, and also for those who are experts in Hyper-V and want to advance their skills with the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Download eBook Free »