Hackers Beware

Chapter 20. Summary

Hopefully, this book has increased your awareness of the threats that exist and has shown you what can be done to protect against them. When it comes to network security and protecting your site, ignorance is deadly and knowledge is power. A company can only defend its network and systems from attackers if it understands what it is up against. A company must understand how attackers break into systems and what tools they use to compromise a network. The attacker tools on the Internet are only dangerous to a site if the attackers are the only ones using them. If companies run these tools against their sites on a regular basis—to ...