Network Administrators Survival Guide

This chapter introduces Netadmins to bootable CD-ROM based security tool kits. The bootable CD-ROMs contain fully functional OSs with pre-installed tools that can immediately be used with no installation or configuration requirements. The chapter prepares the Netadmin to use bootable live CD-ROMs for the following tasks:

• Network scanning

• Port scanning

• Remote OS detection

• Vulnerability scanning

• Using CLI-based packet analyzers for network and security analysis

• Using GUI-based packet analyzers for network and security analysis

• Using GUI-based packet analyzers to reassemble a TCP data stream

Table 7-10 lists all the tools discussed in this chapter.