TCP/IP and Network Security: Attacks and Defense Mechanisms with Open Source Tools

"Due to extensivegrowth of the Internet, increasing availability of tools and methods forintruding and attacking networks, intrusion detection has become a criticalcomponent of network security parameters. TCP/IP protocol suite is the defactostandard for communication on the Internet. The underlying vulnerabilities inthe TCP/IP protocols, Routing Protocols, Security Protocols is the root causeof intrusions. Therefor Intrusion detection system becomes an important elementin network security that controls real time data and leads to huge dimensionalproblem. The authors provides the readers the layered approach of TCP/IP modelto achieve early, faster intrusion detection and network protection.