| | |  | Intrusion Detection | Home » » Computer Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring: A Statistical Viewpoint (Information Science and Statistics) | | | | | | | Description: | | This book covers the basic statistical and analytical techniques of computer intrusion detection. It is aimed at both statisticians looking to become involved in the data analysis aspects of computer security and computer scientists looking to expand their toolbox of techniques for detecting intruders. The book is self-contained, assumng no expertise in either computer security or statistics. It begins with a description of the basics of TCP/IP, followed by chapters dealing with network traffic analysis, network monitoring for intrusion detection, host based intrusion detection, and computer viruses and other malicious code. Each section develops the necessary tools as needed. There is an extensive discussion of visualization as it relates to network data and intrusion detection. The book also contains a large bibliography covering the statistical, machine learning, and pattern recognition literature related to network monitoring and intrusion detection. David Marchette is a scientist at the Naval Surface Warfacre Center in Dalhgren, Virginia. He has worked at Navy labs for 15 years, doing research in pattern recognition, computational statistics, and image analysis. He has been a fellow by courtesy in the mathematical sciences department of the Johns Hopkins University since 2000. He has been working in conputer intrusion detection for several years, focusing on statistical methods for anomaly detection and visualization. Dr. Marchette received a Masters in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics from George Mason University in 1996. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| David J. Marchette | | Hardcover:
| 332 pages | | Publisher:
| Springer | | Publication Date:
| June 26, 2001 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0387952810 | | Product Length:
| 9.42 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.18 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.88 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.37 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
| based on 1 reviews |
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Concise, readable, and usefulJan 16, 2009
By S. Plowright For anyone interested in network traffic analysis, particularly IDS/IPS, this is a unique and valuable book. It does assume a basic knowledge of networking (maybe CCNA level), and mathematical statistics to about 2nd year university.
The book focuses on practical approaches to computing useful estimators, including performance optimisation for real-time analysis. It also has examples of data visualisation methods.
Despite its compact size, the scope of the book is quite broad, ranging from traffic modeling, to user profiling, to viral epidemiology. It describes various attack types. It also covers some useful tools for data acquisition, integrity checking, etc.
I did have to go back to my old textbooks to fill in the gaps in my grasp of probability density functions, but the concepts are discussed clearly.
The only slight criticism, is that commercial IDS/IPS systems have come so far since the book was written, and the scale of the problem has also expanded exponentially. I would like to see a revised edition some time. However, the theory and most of the practicalities discussed still hold, and the book should still be useful for some time to come.
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