Skip to Content
Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity
book

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

by Alessandro Parisi
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
342 pages
9h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Host Intrusion Detection Systems

The task of Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) is to detect possible intrusions affecting host machines within an organization, especially the machines that are considered critical. To this end, HIDS monitors some of the system metrics that are supposed to be significant for identifying possible attacks, such as system information associated with the following system metrics:

  • Number and type of running processes
  • Number, type, and creation of user accounts
  • Kernel modules loading (device drivers included)
  • File and directory activity
  • Task scheduler activity
  • Registry key modification
  • Background processes (daemons and services)
  • Operating system (OS) modules loaded at startup
  • Host network activity

Typically, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Bojan Kolosnjaji, Huang Xiao, Peng Xu, Apostolis Zarras

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781789804027