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The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
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The Practice of Network Security Monitoring

by Richard Bejtlich
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
9h 44m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 2. Collecting Network Traffic: Access, Storage, and Management

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Chapter 1 introduced the rationale for NSM. In this chapter, you’ll learn the details of collecting network traffic, specifically as they relate to access, storage, and management. Consistent with the overall theme of this book, this chapter is not an in-depth study of the topic, but rather a guide to help you identify where to put your first sensor and get started collecting network traffic.

A Sample Network for a Pilot NSM System

Chapter 1 introduced a simple network that could require NSM visibility, as reproduced in Figure 2-1. Each “cloud” in the network represents an infrastructure ...

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