Securing Storage: A Practical Guide
to SAN and NAS Security by
Himanshu Dwivedi
Good Addition To Any System Admin Refferance Shelf
The security of data, as shown by several recent high-profile cases, is
weak. It is but a question of time before courts begin requiring more
thorough steps to be taken--users and courts want data security. This book
not only helps IT meet those growing needs, but shows the vendors where
they need to improve. Regulations have highlighted an overlying issue of
data protection. Data, whether it is financial data, non-public private
information, or medical data, needs to be protected from unauthorized
external and internal entities at all times. Much valuable data (i.e. customer
and patient data) spends most of its lifetime in a storage device--not on
computers, servers, or networks. Local failures and outside intruders can
change, destroy, or compromise stored data even if the main network is
secure: storage requires its own security. This book is a must read for IT

personnel responsible for data security and security consultants who
perform compliance audits at companies that use storage devices.
Personal Review: Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN
and NAS Security by Himanshu Dwivedi
Dwivedi does an excellent job of covering a little thought about area of
networking that is growing rapidly.
The layout of the book is well thought out and takes the reader thru a step-
by-step process of how networked storage is hacked. This is not a book
that you would want to read once and expect to have all the answers.
Dwivedi has written this book with both the reader and that concept in
mind. It contains a vast amount of knowledge about network storage
secutity. There is so much information that memorizing this book would be
impossible
Dwivedi provides the reader with numerous assessment exercises making
it easier to understand the large amount of information and techniques
presented. It is thoroughly indexed and arranged in away that allows
anyone to access an attack method and reference that process including
the downloads with which to attack any choosen vulnerability.
The introduction section of this book gives anyone with little or no network
storage knowledge a very concise understanding of risk management,
security basics and attack scenarios. It is finalized with a handy question
and answer section that helps tie it all together.
Dwivedi covers processes, types of storage and the designs most
commonly used in storage networks in great detail. He covers SAN, NAS
and iSCSI Security and the ways in which to attack each successfully.
Every conceivable attack on network storage and how they are done,
including many links to scripts are included for the reader. They show the
reader general storage network knowledge and how to audit their own
systems for security weaknesses. It gives the reader a very broad
overview of the subject with detailed specifics, which helps to understand
the technical basis of attacks and how to deter those attacks.
Dwivedi wraps it all together with details on how to lock down each of the
network storage types in detail. As with the rest of the book he lists
precise step-by-step ways to
audit a system and keep out the unauthorized. In the last part of the book
Dwivedi also covers compliance, regulations and how they relate to
storage. He shows how Sarbanes,HIPAA,G-LB, and CA SB1386 affect
storage and storage security. He covers the main sections of each
regulation and gives highlights about each, including common examples of
what is affected. To help the reader further digest an otherwise difficult to
comprehend subject, Dwivedi provides three case studies of how actual
companies have secured their networked storage.

If you do any networked storage or securty I highly recommend this great
security book as an addition to your referance library.
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