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Watch, listen, and learn how to protect your network from destructive and costly attacks! -- Step-by-step coverage and hands-on countermeasures for all five phases of hacking! -- Great value! Watch 5 + hours of desktop videos demonstrating essential network security techniques for both Windows and Linux environments! -- Invaluable, real-world advice straight from Ed Skoudis -- the security expert who demonstrated hacking to the U.S. Senate! This comprehensive, step-by-step video training course will empower every network and system administrator to defend their network assets, whether or not they have security experience. Through more than 5 hours of desktop digital video, security expert Ed Skoudis shows how to protect both Windows and Linux systems, offering insider's descriptions of today's most destructive hacker tools, and proven, step-by-step countermeasures. Watch, listen, and learn as Skoudis presents the hacker's view of networks and their vulnerabilities. He discusses all five phases of hacking: reconnaissance (targeting of a network); scanning for vulnerabilities; gaining access and exploiting the system; maintaining access; and preventing detection. Discover today's most dangerous attack scenarios and widely-used hacker tools, including war dialers, port scanners, firewall scanners, sniffers, and session hijackers -- and learn today's most effective countermeasures. Understand techniques such as IP spoofing, IP fragmentation, and denial of service attacks -- and learn exactly how to detect and prevent them. Then, practice with the hands-on projects -- and compare your results against Ed Skoudis' expert recommended solutions. Includes a custom workbook containing allvideo presentation materials!