In the fall of 1999, I was asked to teach a course on computer
intrusion detection for the Department of Mathematical Sciences of The
Johns Hopkins University. That course was the genesis of this book. I
had been working in the field for several years at the Naval Surface
Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, Virginia, under the auspices of the
SHADOW program, with some funding by the Office of Naval Research. In
designing the class, I was concerned both with giving an overview of
the basic problems in computer security, and with providing
information that was of interest to a department of mathematicians.
Thus, the focus of the course was to be more on methods for modeling
and detecting intrusions rather than one on how to secure one's
computer against intrusions. The first task was to find a book from
which to teach. I was familiar with several books on the subject, but
they were all at either a high level, focusing more on the political
and policy aspects of the problem, or were written for security
analysts, with little to interest a mathematician. I wanted to cover
material that would appeal to the faculty members of the department,
some of whom ended up sitting in on the course, as well as providing
some interesting problems for students. None of the books on the
market at the time had an adequate discussion of mathematical issues
related to intrusion detection.
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ISBN
9781475734584
Publisert
2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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