Hands-on Information Security Lab Manual

The Hands-On Information Security Lab Manual, Third Edition by Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord is the perfect addition to the Course Technology Information Security series, including the Whitman and Mattord texts, Principles of Information Security, Fourth Edition and Management of Information Security, Third Edition. This non-certification-based lab manual allows students to apply the basics of their introductory security knowledge in a hands-on environment. While providing information security instructors with detailed, hands-on exercises for Windows XP, Vista, and Linux, this manual contains sufficient exercises to make it a suitable resource for introductory, technical, and managerial security courses. Topics include footprinting, data management and recovery, access control, log security issues, network intrusion detection systems, virtual private networks and remote access, and malware prevention and detection.

Michael Whitman, Ph.D., CISM, CISSP is a Professor of Information Systems in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, where he is also the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Information Security and Assurance degree and the Director of the KSU Center for Information Security Education. Dr. Whitman is an active researcher in Information Security and has published articles in the top journals in his field, as well as co-authored numerous textbooks in information security.
Herbert Mattord, M.B.A., CISM, CISSP completed more than 20 years of IT industry experience as an application developer, database administrator, project manager, and information security practitioner before joining the faculty as Kennesaw State University in 2002. Professor Mattord has years of classroom experience and currently teaches information security courses at KSU. Professor Mattord has co-authored many information security textbooks, all published by Course Technology.