Information Security Analytics from Syngress

Information Security Analytics from Syngress Finding security insights, patterns and anomalies in big data Information Security Analytics: Finding Security Insights, Patterns, and Anomalies in Big Data by Mark Ryan M. Talabis, Robert McPherson, Inez Miyamoto and Jason L. MartinThis book provides insights into the practice of analytics and, more importantly, how readers can utilize analytic techniques to identify trends and outliers that may not be possible to identify using traditional security analysis techniques. It contains information on open-source analytics and statistical packages, tools, and applications, as well as step-by-step guidance on how to use analytics tools and how they map to the techniques and scenarios provided. Readers learn how to design and utilize simulations for "what-if" scenarios to simulate security events and processes, and how to utilize big data techniques to assist in incident response and intrusion analysis. Written by security practitioners, forsecurity practitioners, the book includes real-world case studies and scenarios for each analytics technique. The book contains 183 pages of which 160 are text (not counting foreword, index etc.). A significant amount of....