The Tao of Network Security Monitoring Beyond Intrusion Detection

Footnotes

Preface

¹ At the 2003 USENIX Security Conference in Washington, D.C., Akamai Inc.'s security architect, Andy Ellis, said, “Most traffic reaches users via small access networks,” like T-1s and T-3s.

² FreeBSD is “UNIX-like” only in the sense that “UNIX” is a trademark held by The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/). A review of UNIX history (http://www.levenez.com/unix/) shows FreeBSD's lineage is more closely related to the original UNIX than many other “UNIX-like” operating systems.

³ I agree with many of the points made in an essay by Matthew Fuller, “BSD vs. Linux,” available at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php.

⁴ Isaac Newton may have written a letter to Robert Hooke stating, “If I have seen ...