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       How well does your enterprise stand up against today’s sophisticated security threats? In this book, security experts from Cisco Systems demonstrate how to detect damaging security incidents on your global network–first by teaching you which assets you need to monitor closely, and then by helping you develop targeted strategies and pragmatic techniques to protect them.

       Security Monitoring is based on the authors’ years of experience conducting incident response to keep Cisco’s global network secure. It offers six steps to improve network monitoring. These steps will help you:

Develop Policies: define rules, regulations, and monitoring criteria
Know Your Network: build knowledge of your infrastructure with network telemetry
Select Your Targets: define the subset of infrastructure to be monitored
Choose Event Sources: identify event types needed to discover policy violations
Feed and Tune: collect data, generate alerts, and tune systems using contextual information
Maintain Dependable Event Sources: prevent critical gaps in collecting and monitoring events
Security Monitoring illustrates these steps with detailed examples that will help you learn to select and deploy the best techniques for monitoring your own enterprise network.

About the Author
Chris Fry has been a member of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at Cisco Systems, Inc for 5 years, focusing on deployment of intrusion detection, network monitoring tools, and incident investigation. He began his career at Cisco in 1997 as an IT analyst, supporting Cisco’s production services. His four years as a Network Engineer in Cisco IT’s internal network support organization give him valuable knowledge about and unique insight into monitoring production enterprise networks. Chris holds a BA in Corporate Financial Analysis and an MS in Information and Communication Sciences from Ball State University.

Martin Nystrom is a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) for the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at Cisco Systems. He leads the global security monitoring team and provides guidance for incident response and security initiatives. Prior to joining Cisco’s CSIRT, he was responsible for designing and consulting on secure architectures for IT projects. Martin worked as an IT architect and a Java programmer for 12 years prior, where he built his experience in the pharmaceutical and computer industries. He received a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in 1990, a master’s degree from NC State University in 2003, and his CISSP certification in 2004. He is the author of O’Reilly’s “SQL Injection Defenses”, and the forthcoming, “Security Monitoring”. He is a frequent conference speaker, and was honored on the Java One Rock Star Wall of Fame. He enjoys speaking at FIRST and Cisco Networkers conferences, and providing security guidance to customers via Cisco’s Executive Briefing program. Most of Martin’s papers and presos can be found at xianshield.org

Book Details
Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (February 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596518161
ISBN-13: 978-0596518165
File Size: 6.3 MiB