Our goal in writing Network Intrusion Detection, Third Edition has been toempower you as an analyst. We believe that if you read this book cover to cover,and put the material into practice as you go, you will be ready to enter theworld of intrusion analysis. Many people have read our books, or attended ourlive class offered by SANS, and the...

This monograph presents a comparison of methods for organizing very large amounts of stored data called a very large database to facilitate fast retrieval of desired information on direct access storage devices. In a very large data base involving retrieval and updating, the major factor of immediate concern is the average number of accesses...

Whether it’s from malicious code sent through an e-mail or an unauthorized user accessing company files, your network is vulnerable to attack. Your response to such incidents is critical. With this comprehensive guide, Douglas Schweitzer...

Although they are believed to be unsolvable in general, tractability results suggest that some practical NP-hard problems can be efficiently solved. Combinatorial search algorithms are designed to efficiently explore the usually large solution space of these instances by reducing the search space to feasible regions and using heuristics to...

Semantics in Adaptive and Personalised Services, initially strikes one as a specific and perhaps narrow domain. Yet, a closer examination of the term reveals much more. On one hand there is the issue of semantics. Nowadays, this most often refers to the use of OWL, RDF or some other XML based ontology description language in order to...