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Implementing Intrusion Detection Systems: A Hands-On Guide for Securing the Network
Your in-depth guide to implementing and optimizing an effective intrusion detection system for your networkHere’s the in-the-trenches handbook you’ve been looking for, loaded with information and tips from real case studies that will help you deploy, configure, and monitor an effective intrusion detection system. Step-by-step instructions guide you through the process of configuring identification and authentication, mandatory and discretionary access control, physical security, and more. You’ll get practical knowledge of honeynets, IP and MAC addressing, log analysis, and IDS standards, and learn to manage network traffic volume in the IDS.
Tim Crothers gives you the benefit of his own extensive experience, furnishing sample IDS deployments and professional tips that boost your efficiency. If you’re responsible for
network security, this is the guidebook that will help you get a good night’s sleep–at last.
You’ll learn how
Implement an effective IDS for host, network, and combined systems Understand challenges like evasion, unknown attacks, and false alerts Verify, test, and fine-tune intrusion detection systems Analyze various IDS products and determine what meets your organization’s needs Cope with legal issues and architectural challenges Identify, verify, and respond to different types of attacks and alerts Investigate security breaches and prevent recurrences Author TIM CROTHERS, CCNA, CIW, MCSE, MCT, CNE, is chief security engineer for ITM Technology, an e-security provider, and the author of Internet Lockdown. He developed the curriculum for an Internet security consulting practice he headed at Prosoft, and has also been a consultant and trainer for IBM, Lucent Technologies, DEC, and other leading organizations.
Tim Crothers gives you the benefit of his own extensive experience, furnishing sample IDS deployments and professional tips that boost your efficiency. If you’re responsible for
network security, this is the guidebook that will help you get a good night’s sleep–at last.
You’ll learn how
Implement an effective IDS for host, network, and combined systems Understand challenges like evasion, unknown attacks, and false alerts Verify, test, and fine-tune intrusion detection systems Analyze various IDS products and determine what meets your organization’s needs Cope with legal issues and architectural challenges Identify, verify, and respond to different types of attacks and alerts Investigate security breaches and prevent recurrences Author TIM CROTHERS, CCNA, CIW, MCSE, MCT, CNE, is chief security engineer for ITM Technology, an e-security provider, and the author of Internet Lockdown. He developed the curriculum for an Internet security consulting practice he headed at Prosoft, and has also been a consultant and trainer for IBM, Lucent Technologies, DEC, and other leading organizations.
336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 11, 2002
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About the author
Tim Crothers
21 books17 followersTim Crothers is a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who is currently a journalism professor and a freelance sportswriter. He is the author of The Man Watching, a biography of Anson Dorrance, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, co-author of Hard Work, the autobiography of UNC basketball coach Roy Williams, and author of The Queen of Katwe, the story of a 16-year-old female chess champion from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.
Crothers lives with his wife and two children
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Crothers lives with his wife and two children
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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