Preface xv
Chapter 1: Network Overview 1
Chapter 2: Infrastructure Monitoring 31
Chapter 3: Intrusion Detection Systems 53
Chapter 4: Lifecycle of a Vulnerability 87
Chapter 5: Proactive Intrusion Prevention and Response via Attack Graphs 119
Chapter 6: Network Flows and Anomaly Detection 151
Chapter 7: Web Application Firewalls 185
Chapter 8: Wireless IDS/IPS 209
Chapter 9: Physical Intrusion Detection for IT 235
Chapter 10: Geospatial Intrusion Detection 275
Chapter 11: Visual Data Communications 347
Chapter 12: Return on Investment: Business Justification 391
Appendix: Bro Installation Guide 435
Index 441
Ryan Trost is the Director of Security and Data Privacy Officer at Comprehensive Health Services where he oversees all the organization’s security and privacy decisions. He teaches several Information Technology courses, including Ethical Hacking, Intrusion Detection, and Data Visualization at Northern Virginia Community College. This enables him to continue exploring his technical interests among the endless managerial meetings. In his spare time, Ryan works to cross-pollinate network security, GIS, and data visualization. He is considered a leading expert in geospatial intrusion detection techniques and has spoken at several conferences on the topic, most notably DEFCON 16. Ryan participated as a RedTeamer in the first annual Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) and now fields a team of students in the annual event. Ryan has been a senior security consultant for several government agencies before transitioning over to the private sector. In 2005, Ryan received his masters of science degree in computer science from George Washington University where he developed his first geospatial intrusion detection tool.
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