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Cybersecurity Blue Team Toolkit

You're reading from   Cybersecurity Blue Team Toolkit A practical handbook to cybersecurity for both tech and non-tech professionals

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119552932
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nadean H. Tanner Nadean H. Tanner
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Foreword
3. Introduction
4. CHAPTER 1: Fundamental Networking and Security Tools 5. CHAPTER 2: Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows 6. CHAPTER 3: Nmap—The Network Mapper 7. CHAPTER 4: Vulnerability Management 8. CHAPTER 5: Monitoring with OSSEC 9. CHAPTER 6: Protecting Wireless Communication 10. CHAPTER 7: Wireshark 11. CHAPTER 8: Access Management 12. CHAPTER 9: Managing Logs 13. CHAPTER 10: Metasploit 14. CHAPTER 11: Web Application Security 15. CHAPTER 12: Patch and Configuration Management 16. CHAPTER 13: Securing OSI Layer 8 17. CHAPTER 14: Kali Linux 18. CHAPTER 15: CISv7 Controls and Best Practices 19. Index
20. End User License Agreement

The Social Engineer Toolkit

According to the global statistics provided by gs.statcounter.com (see Figure 13.2), 70.22 percent of all global desktop users are using Windows—more than 50 percent of those users are on Windows 10, and interestingly enough, 2.22 percent are on Windows XP. According to this graph, there are more global users of Windows XP than Linux, statistically speaking. I have done my best to show you mainly tools of the Windows persuasion. However, we've gotten to a tool that only runs on Linux and macOS. But I may have a few tricks.

Screenshot of the statcounter page displaying that 70.22 percent of the planet runs Microsoft Windows.

Figure 13.2: 70.22 percent of the planet runs Microsoft Windows.

Windows 10 has an interesting tool called the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It is a compatibility layer for running a Linux‐compatible kernel interface that can then run GNU on top of it. GNU is actually not an acronym—it is an antelope this project was named after. GNU is an operating system composed wholly of free software like Ubuntu, openSUSE...

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