Category: E-Books → Implementing SSH: Strategies for Optimizing the Secure Shell

A tactical guide to installing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting SSH in order to secure your network Prevent unwanted hacker attacks! This detailed guide will show you how to strengthen your company systemпїЅs defenses, keep critical data secure, and add to the functionality of your network by deploying SSH. Security expert Himanshu Dwivedi shows you ways to implement SSH on virtually all operating systems, desktops, and servers, so your system is safe, secure, and stable. Learn how SSH fulfills all the core items in security, including authentication, authorization, encryption, integrity, and auditing. Also, discover methods to optimize the protocol for security and functionality on UnixпїЅ, WindowsпїЅ, and network architecture environments. Additionally, find out about the similarities and differences of the major SSH servers and clients.

With the help of numerous architectural examples and case studies, youпїЅll gain the necessary skills to:

Explore many remote access solutions, including the theory, setup, and configuration of port forwarding
Take advantage of features such as secure e-mail, proxy, and dynamic port forwarding
Use SSH on network devices that are traditionally managed by Telnet
Utilize SSH as a VPN solution in both a server and client aspect
Replace insecure protocols such as Rsh, Rlogin, and FTP
Use SSH to secure Web browsing and as a secure wireless (802.11) solution

Table of Contents

Part 1: SSH Basics
Chapter 1. Overview of SSH
Chapter 2. SSH Servers
Chapter 3. Secure Shell Clients
Chapter 4. Authentication
Chapter 5. SSH Management

Part 2: Remote Access Solutions
Chapter 6. SSH Port Forwarding
Chapter 7. Secure Remote Access

Part 3: Protocol Replacement
Chapter 8. SSH Versatility
Chapter 9. Proxy Technologies in a secure Web Environment
Chapter 10. SSH Case Studies

About the Author
HIMANSHU DWIVEDI is Managing Security Architect for @stake, the leading provider of digital security services. He is also a security training leader for the @stake Academy, and has published two books on storage security. His professional experience includes application programming, security consultancy, and secure product design with an emphasis on secure network architecture and server risk assessment.