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Applied Network Security
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Applied Network Security

by Warun Levesque, Arthur Salmon, Michael McLafferty
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Host based

The purpose of a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) is to identify behavior on individual hosts which they are installed on. Behaviors typically monitored are attempts to identify unauthorized and anomalous behavior on that specific host. A HIDS typically installed an agent that is used to monitor each system and alerts on local OS and application activity. The locally-installed agent uses a combination or algorithm that uses signatures, rules, and heuristics to identify unauthorized or unusual activity. Keep in mind that a HIDS is an IDS and its role is only passive; meaning that it is only gathering, identifying, logging, and alerting. An example of a HIDS would be Tripwire and open source host-based intrusion detection ...

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ISBN: 9781786466273