| | |  | Certification Central | Home » » Implementing SSH: Strategies for Optimizing the Secure Shell | | | | | | | Description: | | 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 system’s 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 Unix®, Windows®, 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, you’ll 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Himanshu Dwivedi | | Paperback:
| 402 pages | | Publisher:
| Wiley | | Publication Date:
| October 31, 2003 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0471458805 | | Package Length:
| 9.21 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.87 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.46 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Wrong titleNov 08, 2006
This book should have been "deploying SSH", not "Implementing SSH" which is really what I was looking for. The information is also somewhat misleading; for instance sftp and ssh are different protocols. What is more, the information on what VShell can and cannot do is very outdated and should be changed. At the time this was published, 2004, there was a version of VShell for *nix. This makes me question all the information on the clients I do not know a lot about.
This was very disappointing and not at all what I wanted.
/sad
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent book, great resource guide for SSHAug 18, 2004
I found this book very informative, even for those who have a great understanding of SSH. Author has excellent approach to presenting the subject at hand.
Would recommend to anyone interested in learning more about SSH.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Probably Not Everything You NeedJul 01, 2004
If you are looking to implement SSH without previous experience with it, this book is not going to get it done for you. If you are looking for a book that describes the differences between differnt implementations of SSH and a some nifty management and deployment options then this may be for you. You might condsider this book if you were deciding how to best deploy an SSH product in a large organization.
To quote the author, ".... this book does not cover the ins and outs of SSH as a protocol...... Instead, it covers the ins and outs of implementing and optimizing SSH." Products covered include OpenSSH, OpenSSH(Win32), SSH from SSH Communications, VShell, Secure CRT, Putty, F-Secure, Mindterm, and WinSCP.
The author has substantial knowledge of the different SSH products. The author describes some standard and not-so standard ways SSH can be used in an organization to get the job done. This book is pretty easy to read and the information is useful.
On the downside, I would have liked to buy just one book for SSH. I use OpenSSH. Unfortunately this book didn't give me enough details to satisfy me. I need to know how something works before I deploy it. For OpenSSH, I recommend the SANS Press book on "OpenSSH" as a how to guide to fill the void.
I give this book 3 stars.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Worth getting!Jan 14, 2004
Finally, a book that actually tells me how to deploy SSH. I read the ORA book about SSH, but I'm ready to present the "how" to my manager and I needed a book. This is the one!
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