Network Architect's Handbook. An expert-led journey to building a successful career as a network architect

Alim H. Ali, Steven Parker, Russell Ware

Becoming a network architect is challenging—it demands hands-on engineering skills, collaboration with internal teams and C-Suite stakeholders, as well as adeptly managing external entities like vendors and service providers. The author taps into his extensive background in IT and security to help you gain a detailed understanding of the network architect's role and guide you in evolving into an effective network architect within an organization, fostering seamless communication with leadership teams and other stakeholders.Starting with a clear definition of the network architect’s role, this book lays out a roadmap and discusses the attributes and mindset for success. You’ll explore network architect design, physical infrastructure routing and switching, and network services such as DNS, MLAG, and service insertion. You’ll also gain insights into the necessary skills and typical daily challenges faced by network architects. And to thoroughly prepare you to advance in your career, this handbook covers certifications and associated training for maintaining relevance in an organization, along with common interview questions for a network architect's position.By the end of this book, you’ll be armed with essential concepts, techniques, and newfound skills to pursue a career as a network architect.

Network Automation Cookbook. Proven and actionable recipes to automate and manage network devices using Ansible

Karim Okasha

Network Automation Cookbook is designed to help system administrators, network engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers to centrally manage switches, routers, and other devices in their organization's network. This book will help you gain hands-on experience in automating enterprise networks and take you through core network automation techniques using the latest version of Ansible and Python. With the help of practical recipes, you'll learn how to build a network infrastructure that can be easily managed and updated as it scales through a large number of devices. You'll also cover topics related to security automation and get to grips with essential techniques to maintain network robustness. As you make progress, the book will show you how to automate networks on public cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. Finally, you will get up and running with Ansible 2.9 and discover troubleshooting techniques and network automation best practices. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Ansible to automate modern network devices and integrate third-party tools such as NAPALM, NetBox, and Batfish easily to build robust network automation solutions.

Network Automation with Go. Learn how to automate network operations and build applications using the Go programming language

Nicolas Leiva, Michael Kashin

Go’s built-in first-class concurrency mechanisms make it an ideal choice for long-lived low-bandwidth I/O operations, which are typical requirements of network automation and network operations applications.This book provides a quick overview of Go and hands-on examples within it to help you become proficient with Go for network automation. It’s a practical guide that will teach you how to automate common network operations and build systems using Go.The first part takes you through a general overview, use cases, strengths, and inherent weaknesses of Go to prepare you for a deeper dive into network automation, which is heavily reliant on understanding this programming language. You’ll explore the common network automation areas and challenges, what language features you can use in each of those areas, and the common software tools and packages. To help deepen your understanding, you’ll also work through real-world network automation problems and apply hands-on solutions to them.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Go and have a solid grasp on network automation.

Network Automation with Nautobot. Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

Jason Edelman, Glenn Matthews, Josh VanDeraa, Ken Celenza, ...

Nautobot enables network teams to build a scalable and extensible network source of truth that provides a foundation to power any network automation stack.With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to deploy, manage, and integrate Nautobot as a source of truth and network automation platform. As you progress, you’ll learn what a network source of truth is, the relationship between data and network automation, and network data models. You’ll also gain a broad understanding of Nautobot and its robust features that allow maximum flexibility. A dedicated section will show you how to construct a single source of truth with Nautobot and help you explore its programmatic APIs, including REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, and Nautobot Job Hooks. Later, you’ll develop custom data models and custom apps for Nautobot and experience its extensibility and powerful developer API. In the last part of this book, you'll discover how to deploy configuration compliance and automated remediation once Nautobot is deployed as a network source of truth.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and manage Nautobot as a network source of truth, understand its key features, and extend Nautobot by creating custom data models and apps that suit your network and your team.

Network Programming and Automation Essentials. Get started in the realm of network automation using Python and Go

Claus Töpke

Network programming and automation, unlike traditional networking, is a modern-day skill that helps in configuring, managing, and operating networks and network devices. This book will guide you with important information, helping you set up and start working with network programming and automation.With Network Programming and Automation Essentials, you’ll learn the basics of networking in brief. You’ll explore the network programming and automation ecosystem, learn about the leading programmable interfaces, and go through the protocols, tools, techniques, and technologies associated with network programming. You’ll also master network automation using Python and Go with hands-on labs and real network emulation in this comprehensive guide.By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to program and automate networks efficiently.

Network Programming with Rust. Build fast and resilient network servers and clients by leveraging Rust's memory-safety and concurrency features

Abhishek Chanda

Rust is low-level enough to provide fine-grained control over memory while providing safety through compile-time validation. This makes it uniquely suitable for writing low-level networking applications.This book is divided into three main parts that will take you on an exciting journey of building a fully functional web server. The book starts with a solid introduction to Rust and essential networking concepts. This will lay a foundation for, and set the tone of, the entire book. In the second part, we will take an in-depth look at using Rust for networking software. From client-server networking using sockets to IPv4/v6, DNS, TCP, UDP, you will also learn about serializing and deserializing data using serde. The book shows how to communicate with REST servers over HTTP. The final part of the book discusses asynchronous network programming using the Tokio stack. Given the importance of security for modern systems, you will see how Rust supports common primitives such as TLS and public-key cryptography.After reading this book, you will be more than confident enough to use Rust to build effective networking software

Network Protocols for Security Professionals. Probe and identify network-based vulnerabilities and safeguard against network protocol breaches

Yoram Orzach, Deepanshu Khanna

With the increased demand for computer systems and the ever-evolving internet, network security now plays an even bigger role in securing IT infrastructures against attacks. Equipped with the knowledge of how to find vulnerabilities and infiltrate organizations through their networks, you’ll be able to think like a hacker and safeguard your organization’s network and networking devices. Network Protocols for Security Professionals will show you how.This comprehensive guide gradually increases in complexity, taking you from the basics to advanced concepts. Starting with the structure of data network protocols, devices, and breaches, you’ll become familiar with attacking tools and scripts that take advantage of these breaches. Once you’ve covered the basics, you’ll learn about attacks that target networks and network devices. Your learning journey will get more exciting as you perform eavesdropping, learn data analysis, and use behavior analysis for network forensics. As you progress, you’ll develop a thorough understanding of network protocols and how to use methods and tools you learned in the previous parts to attack and protect these protocols.By the end of this network security book, you’ll be well versed in network protocol security and security countermeasures to protect network protocols.

Network Scanning Cookbook. Practical network security using Nmap and Nessus 7

Sairam Jetty

Network scanning is a discipline of network security that identifies active hosts on networks and determining whether there are any vulnerabilities that could be exploited. Nessus and Nmap are among the top tools that enable you to scan your network for vulnerabilities and open ports, which can be used as back doors into a network.Network Scanning Cookbook contains recipes for configuring these tools in your infrastructure that get you started with scanning ports, services, and devices in your network. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn how to carry out various key scanning tasks, such as firewall detection, OS detection, and access management, and will look at problems related to vulnerability scanning and exploitation in the network. The book also contains recipes for assessing remote services and the security risks that they bring to a network infrastructure.By the end of the book, you will be familiar with industry-grade tools for network scanning, and techniques for vulnerability scanning and network protection.

Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide. Explore and visualize network data effectively

Edward L. Platt

NetworkX is a leading free and open source package used for network science with the Python programming language. NetworkX can track properties of individuals and relationships, find communities, analyze resilience, detect key network locations, and perform a wide range of important tasks. With the recent release of version 2, NetworkX has been updated to be more powerful and easy to use.If you’re a data scientist, engineer, or computational social scientist, this book will guide you in using the Python programming language to gain insights into real-world networks. Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll be introduced to the core concepts of network science, along with examples that use real-world data and Python code. This book will introduce you to theoretical concepts such as scale-free and small-world networks, centrality measures, and agent-based modeling. You’ll also be able to look for scale-free networks in real data and visualize a network using circular, directed, and shell layouts.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to choose appropriate network representations, use NetworkX to build and characterize networks, and uncover insights while working with real-world systems.

Network Science with Python. Explore the networks around us using network science, social network analysis, and machine learning

David Knickerbocker

Network analysis is often taught with tiny or toy data sets, leaving you with a limited scope of learning and practical usage. Network Science with Python helps you extract relevant data, draw conclusions and build networks using industry-standard – practical data sets. You’ll begin by learning the basics of natural language processing, network science, and social network analysis, then move on to programmatically building and analyzing networks. You’ll get a hands-on understanding of the data source, data extraction, interaction with it, and drawing insights from it. This is a hands-on book with theory grounding, specific technical, and mathematical details for future reference. As you progress, you’ll learn to construct and clean networks, conduct network analysis, egocentric network analysis, community detection, and use network data with machine learning. You’ll also explore network analysis concepts, from basics to an advanced level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to identify network data and use it to extract unconventional insights to comprehend the complex world around you.

Network Security and Cryptography. A Comprehensive Guide to Network Protection and Encryption Techniques

Mercury Learning and Information, Sarhan M. Musa

This new edition introduces fundamental concepts in computer networks, blockchain, cryptography, and network security. It covers classical cipher schemes, public key cryptography, authentication schemes, and Internet security, featuring new material on IoT, cloud computing, SCADA, blockchain, smart grid, big data analytics, and AI security.Starting with computer network basics and mathematical foundations, it then explores classical and modern cipher schemes, public-key cryptography, and authentication methods. Later chapters address Internet and system security, and emerging technologies.Intended as a textbook for computer science and electronics courses, it also serves as a comprehensive reference for professionals. Its structured approach ensures a thorough understanding of both foundational and advanced topics, making it essential for mastering cryptography and network security.

Network Security Strategies. Protect your network and enterprise against advanced cybersecurity attacks and threats

Aditya Mukherjee

With advanced cyber attacks severely impacting industry giants and the constantly evolving threat landscape, organizations are adopting complex systems to maintain robust and secure environments. Network Security Strategies will help you get well-versed with the tools and techniques required to protect any network environment against modern cyber threats.You’ll understand how to identify security vulnerabilities across the network and how to effectively use a variety of network security techniques and platforms. Next, the book will show you how to design a robust network that provides top-notch security to protect against traditional and new evolving attacks. With the help of detailed solutions and explanations, you'll be able to monitor networks skillfully and identify potential risks. Finally, the book will cover topics relating to thought leadership and the management aspects of network security.By the end of this network security book, you'll be well-versed in defending your network from threats and be able to consistently maintain operational efficiency, security, and privacy in your environment.

Network Security with pfSense. Architect, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade firewalls

Manuj Aggarwal

While connected to the internet, you’re a potential target for an array of cyber threats, such as hackers, keyloggers, and Trojans that attack through unpatched security holes. A firewall works as a barrier (or ‘shield’) between your computer and cyberspace. pfSense is highly versatile firewall software. With thousands of enterprises using pfSense, it is fast becoming the world's most trusted open source network security solution.Network Security with pfSense begins with an introduction to pfSense, where you will gain an understanding of what pfSense is, its key features, and advantages. Next, you will learn how to configure pfSense as a firewall and create and manage firewall rules. As you make your way through the chapters, you will test pfSense for failover and load balancing across multiple wide area network (WAN) connections. You will then configure pfSense with OpenVPN for secure remote connectivity and implement IPsec VPN tunnels with pfSense. In the concluding chapters, you’ll understand how to configure and integrate pfSense as a Squid proxy server.By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage the power of pfSense to build a secure network.

Network Vulnerability Assessment. Identify security loopholes in your network’s infrastructure

Sagar Rahalkar

The tech world has been taken over by digitization to a very large extent, and so it’s become extremely important for an organization to actively design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities can be one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure.Network Vulnerability Assessment starts with network security assessment concepts, workflows, and architectures. Then, you will use open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning. As you make your way through the chapters, you will use these scanning results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. In the concluding chapters, you will dig deeper into concepts such as IP network analysis, Microsoft Services, and mail services. You will also get to grips with various security best practices, which will help you build your network security mechanism.By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build a security framework fit for an organization.

Networking Fundamentals. Develop the networking skills required to pass the Microsoft MTA Networking Fundamentals Exam 98-366

Gordon Davies

A network is a collection of computers, servers, mobile devices, or other computing devices connected for sharing data. This book will help you become well versed in basic networking concepts and prepare to pass Microsoft's MTA Networking Fundamentals Exam 98-366.Following Microsoft's official syllabus, the book starts by covering network infrastructures to help you differentiate intranets, internets, and extranets, and learn about network topologies. You’ll then get up to date with common network hardware devices such as routers and switches and the media types used to connect them together. As you advance, the book will take you through different protocols and services and the requirements to follow a standardized approach to networking. You’ll get to grips with the OSI and TCP/IP models as well as IPv4 and IPv6. The book also shows you how to recall IP addresses through name resolution. Finally, you’ll be able to practice everything you’ve learned and take the exam confidently with the help of mock tests. By the end of this networking book, you’ll have developed a strong foundation in the essential networking concepts needed to pass Exam 98-366.

Neural Network Programming with Tensorflow. Unleash the power of TensorFlow to train efficient neural networks

Manpreet Singh Ghotra, Rajdeep Dua

If you're aware of the buzz surrounding the terms such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, or deep learning, you might know what neural networks are. Ever wondered how they help in solving complex computational problem efficiently, or how to train efficient neural networks? This book will teach you just that.You will start by getting a quick overview of the popular TensorFlow library and how it is used to train different neural networks. You will get a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and basic math for neural networks and why TensorFlow is a popular choice Then, you will proceed to implement a simple feed forward neural network. Next you will master optimization techniques and algorithms for neural networks using TensorFlow. Further, you will learn to implement some more complex types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and Deep Belief Networks. In the course of the book, you will be working on real-world datasets to get a hands-on understanding of neural network programming. You will also get to train generative models and will learn the applications of autoencoders.By the end of this book, you will have a fair understanding of how you can leverage the power of TensorFlow to train neural networks of varying complexities, without any hassle. While you are learning about various neural network implementations you will learn the underlying mathematics and linear algebra and how they map to the appropriate TensorFlow constructs.

Neural Network Projects with Python. The ultimate guide to using Python to explore the true power of neural networks through six projects

James Loy

Neural networks are at the core of recent AI advances, providing some of the best resolutions to many real-world problems, including image recognition, medical diagnosis, text analysis, and more. This book goes through some basic neural network and deep learning concepts, as well as some popular libraries in Python for implementing them.It contains practical demonstrations of neural networks in domains such as fare prediction, image classification, sentiment analysis, and more. In each case, the book provides a problem statement, the specific neural network architecture required to tackle that problem, the reasoning behind the algorithm used, and the associated Python code to implement the solution from scratch. In the process, you will gain hands-on experience with using popular Python libraries such as Keras to build and train your own neural networks from scratch.By the end of this book, you will have mastered the different neural network architectures and created cutting-edge AI projects in Python that will immediately strengthen your machine learning portfolio.

Neural Networks with Keras Cookbook. Over 70 recipes leveraging deep learning techniques across image, text, audio, and game bots

V Kishore Ayyadevara

This book will take you from the basics of neural networks to advanced implementations of architectures using a recipe-based approach.We will learn about how neural networks work and the impact of various hyper parameters on a network's accuracy along with leveraging neural networks for structured and unstructured data.Later, we will learn how to classify and detect objects in images. We will also learn to use transfer learning for multiple applications, including a self-driving car using Convolutional Neural Networks.We will generate images while leveraging GANs and also by performing image encoding. Additionally, we will perform text analysis using word vector based techniques. Later, we will use Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTM to implement chatbot and Machine Translation systems.Finally, you will learn about transcribing images, audio, and generating captions and also use Deep Q-learning to build an agent that plays Space Invaders game.By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills to choose and customize multiple neural network architectures for various deep learning problems you might encounter.

Neural Networks with R. Build smart systems by implementing popular deep learning models in R

Balaji Venkateswaran, Giuseppe Ciaburro

Neural networks are one of the most fascinating machine learning models for solving complex computational problems efficiently. Neural networks are used to solve wide range of problems in different areas of AI and machine learning.This book explains the niche aspects of neural networking and provides you with foundation to get started with advanced topics. The book begins with neural network design using the neural net package, then you’ll build a solid foundation knowledge of how a neural network learns from data, and the principles behind it. This book covers various types of neural network including recurrent neural networks and convoluted neural networks. You will not only learn how to train neural networks, but will also explore generalization of these networks. Later we will delve into combining different neural network models and work with the real-world use cases.By the end of this book, you will learn to implement neural network models in your applications with the help of practical examples in the book.

Neural Search - From Prototype to Production with Jina. Build deep learning–powered search systems that you can deploy and manage with ease

Bo Wang, Cristian Mitroi, Feng Wang, Shubham Saboo, ...

Search is a big and ever-growing part of the tech ecosystem. Traditional search, however, has limitations that are hard to overcome because of the way it is designed. Neural search is a novel approach that uses the power of machine learning to retrieve information using vector embeddings as first-class citizens, opening up new possibilities of improving the results obtained through traditional search.Although neural search is a powerful tool, it is new and finetuning it can be tedious as it requires you to understand the several components on which it relies. Jina fills this gap by providing an infrastructure that reduces the time and complexity involved in creating deep learning–powered search engines. This book will enable you to learn the fundamentals of neural networks for neural search, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as how to use Jina to build a search engine. With the help of step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you'll become well-versed with the basics of neural search and core Jina concepts, and learn to apply this knowledge to build your own search engine.By the end of this deep learning book, you'll be able to make the most of Jina's neural search design patterns to build an end-to-end search solution for any modality.

Neurobiologia stawiania granic

Juliane Taylor-Shore

Wykorzystaj neurobiologię, aby skutecznie stawiać granice! Mądre stawianie granic to podstawa higieny psychicznej i rozwoju. Bez nich łatwo ulegamy wypaleniu, a także tracimy pewność siebie, poczucie bezpieczeństwa i kontroli nad życiem, zarówno prywatnym, jak i zawodowym. Z tej książki dowiesz się, jak w sześciu krokach możesz przeprogramować swój mózg, by wreszcie zacząć dostrzegać, gdzie znajdują się twoje indywidualne granice, oraz nauczyć się je wyznaczać. Dzięki temu: nauczysz się reagować w sposób świadomy i zaczniesz panować nad codziennymi wyzwaniami i konfliktami, wzmocnisz poczucie sprawczości we wszystkich obszarach życia, poprawisz swoje relacje z innymi dzięki większej pewności siebie i skutecznej komunikacji, nabierzesz zaufania do siebie i swojej intuicji, zaczniesz żyć w zgodzie z własnymi wartościami, zwiększysz asertywność i zadbasz o swoje potrzeby, staniesz się najlepszą wersją siebie. Autorka Juliane Taylor Shore, terapeutka małżeństw i rodzin z ponaddwudziestoletnim doświadczeniem, przeprowadzi cię przez proces odkrywania nowych sposobów myślenia o sobie, twoich relacjach i emocjach, a także przedstawi ci codzienne praktyki, które pozwolą ci wypracować nowe wzorce zachowań.

Neurologia - analiza przypadków klinicznych

Urszula Fiszer, Małgorzata Michałowska, Leszek Królicki

W niniejszej monografii istotne znaczenie na prezentacja przypadków według ściśle określonego schematu z wypunktowaniem najważniejszych objawów klinicznych będących podstawą rozpoznania i różnicowania z innymi podobnymi zespołami chorobowymi. Autorzy omawiają w każdym przypadku podstawy diagnostyki zgodnie z aktualnie obowiązującymi zaleceniami. Publikacja ma dużą wartość edukacyjną, szczególnie dla lekarzy przygotowujących się do egzaminu specjalizacyjnego. Prezentowane opisy przypadków będą również bez wątpienia bardzo interesującą lekturą dla lekarzy neurologów. Ta monografia w pełni zasługuje na umieszczenie jej wśród książek zalecanych do nauki w ramach specjalizacji z neurologii lub innych pokrewnych dziedzin medycyny.

Neuromarketing 2.0. Wygraj wojnę o umysł klienta

Jakub Woźniak

Wygraj wojnę o umysł klienta instrukcja obsługi umysłu na zakupach Idziesz ulicą. Nagle dostrzegasz żółtą walizkę leżącą nieopodal. Rozglądasz się, podchodzisz i otwierasz ją ostrożnie. W środku widzisz jakieś papiery i… plik banknotów! Uśmiechasz się i zastanawiasz, co z nimi zrobić… Mózg nie znosi pustki. Dlatego umieścił tę sytuację na znanej Ci ulicy. Ustalił też pogodę, porę dnia i roku. A nawet dodał zakończenie tej historii… :) Niedługo zrobi Ci też kawał: będziesz odnosić wrażenie, że to Twoje prawdziwe wspomnienie. Dlaczego? Bo zapamiętywaniem doświadczeń i tego, skąd one pochodzą, zajmują się różne części mózgu. Dzięki temu jakiś znany z telewizji produkt możesz trzymać w ręce pierwszy raz w życiu, a jednocześnie czuć się tak, jakby był w Twoim domu od wieków. To prawdziwa neuromagia. Neuromarketing 2.0 to efekt kilku lat wnikliwych obserwacji i analiz. Z chirurgiczną precyzją pokaże Ci, jak neuron po neuronie zdobyć umysł klienta. Neurobranding. Dowiesz się, jak skonstruować nieśmiertelną i zapewniającą stabilność duszę marki oraz dać jej atrakcyjne, zmienne i intrygujące ciało – by kreować marki tak spójne i ciekawe, że nikt im się nie oprze. Neurowriting - opowiadanie poruszających historii. Osiągniesz mistrzostwo w natychmiastowym motywowaniu swoich odbiorców do zakupu dzięki wplataniu w swoje marketingowe opowieści ukrytej historii rdzennej (ang. core story) i maskującej ją historii powierzchniowej (ang. surface story). Neurodesign - projektowanie skutecznej komunikacji sensorycznej. Nauczysz się modyfikować zmysłowe parametry swoich komunikatów (np. jasność i kolory zdjęć, formatowanie tekstu, tempo muzyki itd.) tak, by uzyskać maksymalne efekty perswazyjne. Neurolingwistyka. Odkryjesz, jak gramatyczne formy wyrazów czy związki frazeologiczne żywo wpływają na wyobraźnię odbiorców. I wiele, wieeele więcej… Jakub Woźniak - specjalista od marketingu, neuromarketingu i projektowania reklam. Autor książek i szkoleń, doradca, współtwórca sukcesu ogólnopolskich marek oraz spotów TV. Z wykształcenia inżynier informatyki w medycynie. Więcej informacji znajdziesz na: www.better-ad.pl.

Neurometody kontroli emocji

Jacek Ponikiewski

Dzięki tej książce i dołączonej do nich ćwiczeniom mp3: odnajdziesz w sobie neuronalną sferę emocjonalnego spokoju i stabilności nauczysz się szybko uwalniać negatywne emocje zaczniesz reagować spokojem na bodźce, które do tej pory wypalały cię psychicznie lub zawodowo usuniesz zablokowane w ciele emocje, co wyeliminuje powstałe na ich skutek nerwobóle i schorzenia psychosomatyczne uporasz się z dawnymi traumami i emocjonalnymi ranami przełamiesz psychiczne blokady, które oddzielają cię od świata, nie pozwalając ci czerpać z niego energii i przyjemności przepracujesz swoje straumatyzowane podosobowości, które sabotują z ukrycia twoje życie rozwiniesz i udoskonalisz swoją osobowość dzięki pracy ze snami