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Combating Spyware in the Enterprise

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Combating Spyware in the Enterprise
 
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Combating Spyware in the Enterprise is the first book published on defending enterprise networks from increasingly sophisticated and malicious spyware.

Combating Spyware in the Enterprise begins by examining the various types of insidious spyware and adware currently propagating across the internet and infiltrating enterprise networks. This section closely examines Spyware's ongoing transformation from nuisance to malicious, sophisticated attack vector. Next, the book uncovers spyware's intricate economy and network of malicious hackers and criminals. Forensic investigations presented in this section of the book reveal how increasingly sophisticated spyware can compromise enterprise networks via trojans, keystroke loggers, system monitoring, distributed denial of service attacks, backdoors, viruses, and worms. After close examination of these attack vectors, the book begins to detail both manual and automated techniques for scanning your network for the presence of spyware, and customizing your IDS and IPS to detect spyware. From here, the book goes on to detail how to prevent spyware from being initially installed to mitigating the damage inflicted by spyware should your network become infected. Techniques discussed in this section include slowing the exposure rate; web filtering; using FireFox, MacOSX, or Linux; patching and updating, machine restrictions, shielding, deploying anti-spyware, and re-imaging. The book concludes with an analysis of the future of spyware and what the security community must accomplish to win the ware against spyware.

* A recent survey published by Information Security Magazine stated that "combating spyare" was the #2 priority for security professionals in 2005
* Despite the high priority placed on combating spyware by security professionals, there are no other books published or announced that address this market * Author Paul Piccard is Director of Research for Webroot, which is a market leader for pure-play anti-spyware vendors

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Plenty of potential, but falls short
 
Review Date: August 22, 2006
Reviewer: Richard Bejtlich, Metro Washington, DC
I hoped Combating Spyware in the Enterprise (CSITE) would follow in the footsteps of recent Syngress books on related topics, like Phishing Exposed (me: 5 stars), Software Piracy Exposed (me: 4 stars), Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise (me:4 stars), Inside the Spam Cartel (me: 5 stars), and Insider Threat (4 stars). Each of those books takes a good look at a slice of the modern security landscape, some delivering outstanding material. Unfortunately, CSITE doesn't fit in this group.

The first problem with CSITE is the mediocre integration of material from seven authors. It's the job of the editor or lead author to reduce the internal redundancy to an absolute minimum. This goal was not achieved, especially in places like Ch 4 where one author covers material already presented by another author.

The second problem with CSITE is the inclusion of an appendix, in its entirety, from Phishing Exposed by Lance James. While I liked Phishing Exposed, I didn't need 40 pages from his first book in CSITE. Given that CSITE's main text ended at p 334, the duplicated text looks like padding.

The third problem with CSITE is that I don't think it covers the subject thoroughly. If CSITE were a book on a broader topic, I might not worry so much about missing certain details. However, CSITE is supposed to be about fighting spyware in the enterprise. Yet, it completely ignores enterprise network-level techniques involving traffic inspection and interdiction. Companies spend plenty of money running products like Websense or proxy-based solutions to control inbound and outbound spyware-related traffic. CSITE ignores this and focuses on host-based ways to configure Windows, email, and Web browsers. Those are all extremely necessary, but not sufficient. Intrusion detection/prevention, extrusion detection/prevention, and smarter firewalls are all ignored too.

I wished CSITE had spent more time analyzing actual spyware. While some examples were given, nothing really definitive was shared. It would have been nice to have seen a forensic analysis of a system afflicted with various forms of x-ware, including host- and network-based evidence. Peter Szor's older but brilliant book is much better in this respect.

As far as what CSITE does present, it appears accurate and helpful. I liked the tools overview in Ch 6 and the end user recommendations in Ch 5. The only repeated goof I found was mentioning "Evi Gadron" twice, instead of "Gadi Evron."

If you have no other spyware reference, you will probably find CSITE helpful. Otherwise, I would wait for a second edition that addresses the concerns in this review.
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Trojans, Worms, and Spyware: A Computer Security Professional's Guide to Malicious Code
 
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Trojans, Worms, and Spyware provides practical, easy to understand, and readily usable advice to help organizations to improve their security and reduce the possible risks of malicious code attacks. Despite the global downturn, information systems security remains one of the more in-demand professions in the world today. With the widespread use of the Internet as a business tool, more emphasis is being placed on information security than ever before. To successfully deal with this increase in dependence and the ever growing threat of virus and worm attacks, Information security and information assurance (IA) professionals need a jargon-free book that addresses the practical aspects of meeting new security requirements.

This book provides a comprehensive list of threats, an explanation of what they are and how they wreak havoc with systems, as well as a set of rules-to-live-by along with a system to develop procedures and implement security training. It is a daunting task to combat the new generation of computer security threats - new and advanced variants of Trojans, as well as spyware (both hardware and software) and "bombs" - and Trojans, Worms, and Spyware will be a handy must-have reference for the computer security professional to battle and prevent financial and operational harm from system attacks.

*Provides step-by-step instructions to follow in the event of an attack
*Case studies illustrate the "do's," "don'ts," and lessons learned from infamous attacks
*Illustrates to managers and their staffs the importance of having protocols and a response plan in place

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Good overview and some useful advice
 
Review Date: February 12, 2009
Reviewer: Carl C. Manion, San Antonio, TX United States
This book provides a good overview, but not a lot of detail on malicious code. It's more of a policy-based approach to defending against these threats.
I will never buy a book online again!
 
Review Date: February 9, 2008
Reviewer: T. Tarbill,
This book was of no use whatsoever and had no instructions on how to repair trojans, worms or spyware. Complete, utter waste of time and money!!Lost another one, amazon!Trojans, Worms, and Spyware: A Computer Security Professional's Guide to Malicious Code
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Spyware Reference & Study Guide

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Spyware Reference & Study Guide
 
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Spyware Reference & Study Guide was designed as a research guide not just for the techies, IT managers, or computer security experts, but also for the beginner user. This book looks at the good and bad sides of Spyware.

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Outstanding, easy to understand reference
 
Review Date: May 11, 2005
Reviewer: Katherine Benson, Los Angeles, CA USA
This book is the best book I've found regarding spyware. I was able to determine which spyware programs were infesting my computer and slowing it down. The free software that came with the book helped me remove the spyware, saving me the cost of hiring a tech to do a job that I can do myself after reading this book.
Great spyware book
 
Review Date: May 11, 2005
Reviewer: Tyler Scott, Los Angeles, CA USA
Loved it! Gives lots of references about the different types of spyware and what they are. I found out how to remove spyware and keep it from coming back.
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End Spyware Forever!

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End Spyware Forever!
 
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Slow Computer? Annoying Pop-Ups?? Internet Browsing Difficult?? As the internet has become more and more a part of our everyday lives, corporations and mass marketers have become more and more interested in where we go on the internet, how we get there and how long we stay at a particular site. They find it particularly valuable to know what products we purchase, what products we look for and how we go about those two activities. And, these same corporations will pay big money to have this information delivered to them in a way that can help their promotional efforts thereby creating a market for Spyware. Simply put, spyware is a piece of ingenious software that sits on your computer that gathers and "reports" information about your internet viewing habits…it reports this to a central computer that catalogs hundreds of thousands of individual’s web surfing habits. You get spyware when you visit certain websites…it’s actually downloaded onto your computer without! you knowing it. This program shows you how to remove Spyware from your computer and how to keep it from coming back and infecting your computer all over again.

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware & Viruses
 
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Batten down the hatches! Hackers, spammers and thieves (oh my!) are after you! The mere act of turning on an Internet-connected computer can put you, your family, and your personal finances at risk by exposing you to viruses, scam artists, hackers, identity thieves, and spammers. How do you fight back? Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware and Viruses is your first line of defense.

 

Clear, easy-to-understand definitions of viruses, spyware, and hackers will help you understand what you're up against everytime you go online. Then, you'll learn about other threats, such as identity theft, phishing, and other potential dangers you'll face in your everyday computing. Find out how to search out and destroy spyware, malware and other viscious programs that could potentially harm your computer. Then find out how to lock out hackers, spammers, and theives for good.

 

We'll tell you how to immediately cut the risk of being attacked in half — in less than 10 minutes! Protect your bank accounts, digital photos, digital music collection, masters thesis, and everything you hold near and dear on your computer with the help of the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware and Viruses.

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