Your network is not secure and never will be; can you live with that?

No network can claim to be 100 percent secure. Hackers are clever and motivated to access your network. The best way to protect against these attacks is by knowing their tricks and planning counter measures to defeat them.

For information technology professionals, it is an unfortunate fact that no network can achieve a totally secure end-state. Securing a network is a continuous process of managing risk and closing vulnerabilities as they emerge. This chapter download from Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data, by Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley, analyzes how hackers gain access to a network and suggests techniques you can use to protect your network and overcome the inherent vulnerabilities common in all network systems. The techniques outlined in this download will help you achieve two goals:

• Make it much more difficult for intruders to gain a foothold in the network
• Make it much more difficult for intruders to use that foothold to get anywhere else on the network

Have you fended off an attack on your network lately; tell us your story? Did you track down the culprits?

Title:Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data
Author: By Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Chapter 2: Anatomy of a Hack-The Rise and Fall of Your Network
ISBN: 0321336437; Published: May 20, 2005; Copyright 2005
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Get more insight into hacking in an interview with the book authors Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley.