Implementing SSH: Strategies for Optimizing the Secure Shell

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 402 pages
• Published by: Wiley October 31, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471458805
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471458807
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Book Description
A tactical guide to installing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting SSH in order to secure your network

Prevent unwanted hacker attacks! This detailed guide will show you how to strengthen your company systems defenses, keep critical data secure, and add to the functionality of your network by deploying SSH. Security expert Himanshu Dwivedi shows you ways to implement SSH on virtually all operating systems, desktops, and servers, so your system is safe, secure, and stable. Learn how SSH fulfills all the core items in security, including authentication, authorization, encryption, integrity, and auditing. Also, discover methods to optimize the protocol for security and functionality on Unix®, Windows®, and network architecture environments. Additionally, find out about the similarities and differences of the major SSH servers and clients.

With the help of numerous architectural examples and case studies, youll gain the necessary skills to:

• Explore many remote access solutions, including the theory, setup, and configuration of port forwarding
• Take advantage of features such as secure e-mail, proxy, and dynamic port forwarding
• Use SSH on network devices that are traditionally managed by Telnet
• Utilize SSH as a VPN solution in both a server and client aspect
• Replace insecure protocols such as Rsh, Rlogin, and FTP
• Use SSH to secure Web browsing and as a secure wireless (802.11) solution

Book Info
Guide to installing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting SSH in order to secure your network. Softcover.

Reader Reviews
If you are looking to implement SSH without previous experience with it, this book is not going to get it done for you. If you are looking for a book that describes the differences between differnt implementations of SSH and a some nifty management and deployment options then this may be for you. You might condsider this book if you were deciding how to best deploy an SSH product in a large organization. To quote the author, ".... this book does not cover the ins and outs of SSH as a protocol...... Instead, it covers the ins and outs of implementing and optimizing SSH." Products covered include OpenSSH, OpenSSH(Win32), SSH from SSH Communications, VShell, Secure CRT, Putty, F-Secure, Mindterm, and WinSCP. The author has substantial knowledge of the different SSH products. The author describes some standard and not-so standard ways SSH can be used in an organization to get the job done. This book is pretty easy to read and the information is useful. On the downside, I would have liked to buy just one book for SSH. I use OpenSSH. Unfortunately this book didn't give me enough details to satisfy me. I need to know how something works before I deploy it. For OpenSSH, I recommend the SANS Press book on "OpenSSH" as a how to guide to fill the void. I give this book 3 stars. Comment | | (Report this)