Cybersecurity Ops with bash: Attack, Defend, and Analyze from the Command Line
About this ebook
Authors Paul Troncone, founder of Digadel Corporation, and Carl Albing, coauthor of bash Cookbook (O’Reilly), provide insight into command-line tools and techniques to help defensive operators collect data, analyze logs, and monitor networks. Penetration testers will learn how to leverage the enormous amount of functionality built into nearly every version of Linux to enable offensive operations.
In four parts, security practitioners, administrators, and students will examine:
- Foundations: Principles of defense and offense, command-line and bash basics, and regular expressions
- Defensive security operations: Data collection and analysis, real-time log monitoring, and malware analysis
- Penetration testing: Script obfuscation and tools for command-line fuzzing and remote access
- Security administration: Users, groups, and permissions; device and software inventory
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About the author
Paul Troncone has over 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity and information technology fields. For the past 4 years Paul has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor to the United States Naval Academy, instructing cybersecurity courses in the Computer Science Department. In 2009 Paul founded the Digadel Corporation where he performs independent cybersecurity consulting and software development.
Carl Albing is a software engineer and teacher with a breadth of industry experience. A co-author of O’Reilly’s “bash Cookbook”, he has worked in software for companies large and small, across a variety of software industries. He has a B.A. in Mathematics, Masters in International Management, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has recently spent time in academia as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the US Naval Academy where he taught courses on Programming Languages, Compilers, High Performance Computing, and Advanced Shell Scripting.
