Members of Juniper Networks Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and encourage the application of the most popular network security, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix. Designed to be accessed, Security Power Tools offers multiple approaches to network security via 23 cross-referenced chapters that review the best security tools on this planet for both black hat techniques and white hat tactics of defense. It's a must-have reference for network administrators, engineers and consultants with tips, tricks, and how-to advice for a variety of freeware and commercial tools, ranging from intermediate level command-line operation to advanced programming self-hiding exploits. Security Power Tools details of the practice: Reconnaissance - including tools such as Nmap for network scanning, vulnerability scanning tools for Windows and Linux, LAN reconnaissance, tools to help with wireless reconnaissance, and custom packet generation Penetration - such as the Metasploit framework for automated penetration of remote computers; tools to discover network wireless; exploitation framework applications, and tricks and tools to manipulate shellcodes Control - including configuration of several tools to be used as a backdoor, and a review of known rootkits for Windows and Linux Defense - including host-based firewalls, host hardening for Windows and Linux networks; security communications with ssh, email security and anti-malware, security monitoring and testing instruments - such as a tool to capture and analyze packets; network monitoring with Honeyd and snort, and monitoring of production servers host file changes Discovery - including The Forensic Toolkit, and forensic Sysinternals tools popular; application fuzzer and fuzzing techniques, and the art of binary reverse engineering using tools like Interactive disassembler and Ollydbg A network security timely and practical ethics chapter written by Stanford University law professor complement the suite of topics and make this book a goldmine of security information.