Security Data Visualization introduces network administrators and security professionals to the analytic power of graphical tools to analyze security information. Author Greg Conti shows how to graph, display, and filter network data using a variety of tools, so that readers will be able to understand datasets at a glance. And once they know what a network attack looks like, they'll have a better understanding of its low-level behavior--like how vulnerabilities are exploited or how worms and viruses propagate.
Readers learn how to use visualization techniques to:
- Audit their networks for vulnerabilities
- Explore the faulty security behavior of a Microsoft Word file
- Gain insight into large amounts of low-level packet data
- Dissect port scans, Nessus scans, and Metasploit attacks
- View and analyze firewall and intrusion detection system (IDS) logs
The human eye may be the greatest tool in our security arsenal. Consider the possibilities in this richly illustrated, four-color exploration of the state of the art.
">Network administrators do their best to decipher errors, ignore false alarms, and discover and respond to incidents as they happen, but the sheer volume of information can be overwhelming. That's where visualization--the transformation of textual data into easily understood geometric forms--comes in.
Security Data Visualization (October 2007, full-color, 252 pp) from publisher No Starch Press is a beautifully produced book that leads the way in this exciting field. "Security visualization tools will revolutionize both security analysis and response," said No Starch publisher William Pollock. "Graphical views of network data make it so much easieróand fasterófor the pressured sys admin to make sense of piles of packets."
Security Data Visualization introduces network administrators and security professionals to the analytic power of graphical tools to analyze security information. Author Greg Conti shows how to graph, display, and filter network data using a variety of tools, so that readers will be able to understand datasets at a glance. And once they know what a network attack looks like, they'll have a better understanding of its low-level behavior--like how vulnerabilities are exploited or how worms and viruses propagate.
Readers learn how to use visualization techniques to:
- Audit their networks for vulnerabilities
- Explore the faulty security behavior of a Microsoft Word file
- Gain insight into large amounts of low-level packet data
- Dissect port scans, Nessus scans, and Metasploit attacks
- View and analyze firewall and intrusion detection system (IDS) logs
The human eye may be the greatest tool in our security arsenal. Consider the possibilities in this richly illustrated, four-color exploration of the state of the art.
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