The Practice of Network Security Monitoring

Conclusion

I wrote this book to help readers start a network security monitoring operation within their organization. I used the open source SO suite to show how to put NSM to work in a rapid and cost-effective manner. This final section of the book shows several other options for NSM and related operations. My goal is to show how NSM applies to other areas of digital defense and how I think NSM will adapt to increasingly complex information processing requirements.

First, I discuss how cloud computing affects NSM. The cloud presents challenges and opportunities, and awareness of both will help security managers better defend their data. Second, ...