Intrusion Detection: An Introduction to Internet Surveillance, Correlation, Traps, Trace Back, and Response

By Thomas L. Hilgers and Joy Marsella

The new book - Intrusion Detection - by best selling computer security author Edward Amoroso introduces a fascinating security technique for catching Internet crackers in real time. The book outlines critical issues in intrusion detection including techniques for Internet surveillance, correlation, trace back, honey pot traps, and incident response. The book includes hundreds of illustrations and provides case studies from popular commercial systems. An annotated biliography and index is included. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966670078
• ISBN13: 9780966670073
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Intrusion Net Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

This is a graduate-level academic text

This is one of at least three books you need if you are doing academic research on intrusion detection. This book is a graduate-level text with theory and references. The second book you will need is Intrusion Detection (MTP) which also contains theory and references, but from a different angle. The third book you will need is Network Intrusion Detection (3rd Edition) (Voices (New Riders)) which explains how to actually...

Excellent Theoritical AND Practical Book

To quote the author, the book contains "Lots of information and no quick fixes." And the book contains exactly that! Bravo! The book is concise, relevant, and very well written. It provides excellent information without getting bogged down in minute theory or implementation details.The book provides a solid but practical theoretical background to intrusion detection. It contains relevant real world examples. It does not...

Good theoretical approach

This book is not intended as a practitioner's handbook--that is what Northcutt's book is for. Amoroso's book is used as a text in his graduate classes.If you want to understand the subject from a conceptual level, this book succeeds admirably. It is a bit dry, but acceptably so. Given that Amoroso has taught the subject several times, the organization is logical. The sources are extensive (although other academics...

A well focused taxonomy of intrusion detection

I came across this book as a required text for Dr. Amoroso's graduate course, Software System Security (SE513), at Monmouth University. The book is well organized into eight chapters that give you the primary definitions in chapter one. In chapter two the methods of intrusion detection, such as audit trail processing, are intorduced. The author then procedes to the architecture of intrusion detection in chapter 3. The...