March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
15h 45m
English
Network administrators and IT security professionals can bring to bear a broad array of tools and solutions to help monitor, troubleshoot, and manage the network. The most common of these are protocol analyzers and network management tools. These not only help optimize the network, but also send alerts when suspicious or unusual activity occurs.
As noted before, however, many of the same tools can be—and are—used by hackers to gain insight into the network or to find holes in security that can then be breached. Generally speaking, tools are neither good nor bad (tools that are purpose-built for hacking also work great for pentesting). It depends on the motives of the person using them. This section covers ...
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