September, 2009

Book review: Practical Intrusion Analysis – Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Centrury, by Ryan Trost

This book is a great resource to learn and to expand your knowledge and experience in intrusion analysis. At first glance it seems to be very technical – and it is – while when your start reading it you realise that Trost want you to follow him on the journey from the first step. He does this by explaining in detail things you may already know. And you may feel like he treats you as a child at first. But fear not – he does this of a simple reason – he needs to make sure that you both are on the same level.

As the book progresses, Trost shows you how to analyse your network traffic at great details, using practical examples that you easily can replicate using your own equipement. And the level of understanding he engraves in your early in the book makes perfect sense later.

Another thing I enjoy much is his focus in intrusion analysis – without sole focus on network intrusion. He also covers RFID, biometrics, wireless and much other fun. I am not really getting is the big focus on Web Application Firewalls (WAF) devices. On the other hand, everything seems to be Web 2.0 these days, so it does have some relevance.

I like particularly well the geospatial intrusion detection section. I do not think it is relevant to everyone to be able to track the intrusion to China or Russia, but for some it certainly is. And understanding the global aspect of attacks is important, and being able to show the attack information on a map may proove very useful when communicating with the executives.

Over all, I am impressed by this book and highly reccomend it to anyone even remotedly interested in the topic of intrusion detection.

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-59180-7

Author: Ryan Trost

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pearson Education

Get it on Amazon: Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century .

I just made the first of a serial of posts covering the accident. It is posted over at my motivational blog.

I have included some images too, from the vehicle and myself. It is pretty rough stuff, you have been warned!

Just a quick post to inform you that I am currently at a hospital, recovering from a sever car (truck actually) crash last week.

Allthough I almost did not make it, I am doing great now, and recovering quickly. So be warned that more cynic sarkasm and irony to be dished out from here in the near future!

Ps - thanks for all calls, flowers, wishes and everything - I really really appreciate it, and I had no clue that so many care so much for me. Keep smiling to strangers!