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Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab

ISBN10: 1260458318 | ISBN13: 9781260458312

Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab

Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 1260458318
ISBN13: 9781260458312
By Ric Messier
© 2020

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Manage your own robust, inexpensive cybersecurity testing environment
 
This hands-on guide shows clearly how to administer an effective cybersecurity testing lab using affordable technologies and cloud resources. Build Your Own Cybersecurity Testing Lab: Low-cost Solutions for Testing in Virtual and Cloud-based Environments fully explains multiple techniques for developing lab systems, including the use of Infrastructure-as-Code, meaning you can write programs to create your labs quickly, without manual steps that could lead to costly and frustrating mistakes. Written by a seasoned IT security professional and academic, this book offers complete coverage of cloud and virtual environments as well as physical networks and automation. Included with the book is access to videos that demystify difficult concepts.
 
Inside, you will discover how to:

    • Gather network requirements and build your cybersecurity testing lab
    • Set up virtual machines and physical systems from inexpensive components
    • Select and configure the necessary operating systems
    • Gain remote access through SSH, RDP, and other remote access protocols
    • Efficiently isolate subnets with physical switches, routers, and VLANs
    • Analyze the vulnerabilities and challenges of cloud-based infrastructures
    • Handle implementation of systems on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Engine
    • Maximize consistency and repeatability using the latest automation tools




     

About the Author

Ric Messier

Ric Messier, CEH, CISSP, is an IT security professional with decades of experience working with service provider and enterprise networks. Ric has been a contributor to Hakin9 and PenTest Magazines and has spoken at Interop, New York. Ric currently teaches networking and security courses to graduate students at Brandeis University and to undergraduates at Champlain College. He has also developed two video training titles on ethical hacking and computer forensics.

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