Hacker's Challenge

This volume contains 20 challenges organized by increasing levels of complexity with one challenge per chapter. The challenges cover many areas of information security including Web content, VPNs, denial of service, wireless issues, e-commerce, and email attacks. Each challenge offers a statement of the problem, any background and ancillary information, complete evidence of problem, and specific questions to help the reader solve the problem. The solutions include in-depth analysis of what happened and how the scenario was solved, including specific answers to the questions posed at the end of each challenge. In addition to Mike Schiffman, experienced security consultants from a variety of top security firms contribute their expertise and challenges.

Author Biography

Mike Schiffman, CISSP, has been involved in most every technical arena computer security has to offer. He has researched and developed many cutting edge technologies including tools such as firewalk and tracerx as well as the ubiquitously used low-level packet shaping library libnet. Mike has led audit teams through engagements for fortune 500 companies in the banking, automotive and manufacturing industries. He has spoken in front of several institutions and government agencies such as: NSA, CIA, DOD, AFWIC, SAIC, and army intelligence. Mike is the lead author of Hackers Challenge, and has written for numerous technical journals such as Software Magazine and has written articles for securityfocus.com, and authored many security white papers. Currently, Mike is the Director of Security Architecture for stake, the leading provider of professional security services. Previous to stake, Mike was the Director of Research and Development for Guardent, Inc.