Architecture of Security Tools Presentation

Most Network Security tools are proactive in nature i.e. they watch the network, get triggered by some event which happens on the network and then react to it. Due to the nature of this exercise it is possible to conceptualize the above in the form of an event driven framework. In this video series we will look at the Architecture of a Proactive security tool and how to go about programming it.
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1. Posix Thread Basics

2. Beej's IPC Guide

3. Packet Injection Basics

4. Packet Sniffing Basics

5. ARP DoS tool

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net