The Practice of Network Security Monitoring

Foreword

This may be one of the most important books you ever read. Cybersecurity is both a national and economic security issue. Governments worldwide wage clandestine battles every day in cyberspace. Infrastructure critical to our safety and well-being, like the power grid, is being attacked. Intellectual property, key to our economic prosperity, is being sucked out of this country at a massive rate. Companies large and small are constantly at risk in the digital world.

It is this civilian component of the conflict that makes this book so important. To borrow from a cliché: If your organization is not part of the solution, it is part of the problem. By protecting your organization, you prevent it from being used as a stepping-stone to attack ...