Hackers Beware

Summary

Until you know what you are up against you cannot start to build proper defenses. Many companies think they are secure because they spend a lot of money on security. Unfortunately, a large number of companies spend in the wrong areas. What good is spending money or building defense mechanisms that do not protect your site against the attacks that are occurring. The information in this chapter has helped lay the groundwork to understand the rest of this book and, more importantly, to secure your network. Now that we have a general understanding of the process attackers go through to compromise a system and the type of attacks that exist, we can start to take a more detailed look at some of these specific attacks.