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Combating Spyware in the Enterprise: Discover, Detect, & Eradicate the Internets Greatest Threat
Combating Spyware in the Enterprise is the first book
published on defending enterprise networks from increasingly
sophisticated and malicious spyware. System administrators
and security professionals responsible for administering and
securing networks ranging in size from SOHO networks up the
largest, enterprise networks will
learn to use a combination
of free and commercial anti-spyware software, firewalls,
intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems,
and host integrity monitoring applications to prevent the
installation of spyware, and to limit the damage caused by
spyware that does in fact infiltrate their network.
Combating Spyware in the Enterprise begins by examining the
various types of insidious spyware and adware currently
propagating across the internet and infiltrating enterprise
networks. This section closely examines spyware's ongoing
transformation from nuisance to malicious, sophisticated
attack vector. Next, the book uncovers spyware's intricate
economy and network of malicious hackers and criminals.
Forensic investigations presented in this section of the
book reveal how increasingly sophisticated spyware can
compromise enterprise networks via trojans, keystroke
loggers, system monitoring, distributed denial of service
attacks, backdoors, viruses, and worms. After close
examination of these attack vectors, the book begins to
detail both manual and automated techniques for scanning
your network for the presence of spyware, and customizing
your IDS and IPS to detect spyware. From here, the book goes
on to detail how to prevent spyware from being initially
installed to mitigating the damage inflicted by spyware
should your network become infected. Techniques discussed in
this section include slowing the exposure rate; web
filtering; using FireFox, MacOSX, or Linux; patching and
updating, machine restrictions, shielding, deploying
anti-spyware, and re-imaging. The book concludes with an
analysis of the future of spyware and what the security
community must accomplish to win the ware against spyware.
Chapter 1: Types of Spyware
Chapter 2: Types of Adware
Chapter 3: The Spyware Economy
Chapter 4: Spyware Vectors
Chapter 5: Finding and Identifying Spyware
Chapter 7: Combating Spyware in the Enterprise Chapter 8: Spyware Hall of Fame
Chapter 9: The Future of Spyware
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