Security Data Visualization--New from No Starch Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Camille Herrera, camille@nostarch.com
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No Starch Press Releases "Security Data Visualization":
A first-ever, accessible look at the graphical analysis of security data

No one ever said network management was easy. Server logs, firewall
alerts, and raw packet captures take time and effort to analyze using
text-based tools alone. The Internet is a battlefield, and your computers
are under constant attack. 

Network administrators do their best to decipher errors, ignore false
alarms, and discover and respond to incidents as they happen, but the
sheer volume of information can be overwhelming. That's where
visualization--the transformation of textual data into easily understood
geometric forms--comes in. 

"Security Data Visualization" (October 2007, full-color, 252 pp) from
publisher No Starch Press is a beautifully produced book that leads the
way in this exciting field. "Security visualization tools will
revolutionize both security analysis and response," said No Starch
publisher William Pollock. "Graphical views of network data make it so
much easier--and faster--for the pressured sys admin to make sense of
piles of packets." 

"Security Data Visualization" introduces network administrators and
security professionals to the analytic power of graphical tools to analyze
security information. Author Greg Conti shows how to graph, display, and
filter network data using a variety of tools, so that readers will be able
to understand datasets at a glance. And once they know what a network
attack looks like, they'll have a better understanding of its low-level
behavior--like how vulnerabilities are exploited or how worms and viruses
propagate. 

Readers learn how to use visualization techniques to:

   * Audit their networks for vulnerabilities
   * Explore the faulty security behavior of a Microsoft Word file
   * Gain insight into large amounts of low-level packet data
   * Dissect port scans, Nessus scans, and Metasploit attacks 
   * View and analyze firewall and intrusion detection system (IDS) logs

The human eye may be the greatest tool in our security arsenal. Consider
the possibilities in this richly illustrated, four-color exploration of
the state of the art.

Author Bio:
Gregory Conti, an assistant professor of computer science at the US
Military Academy in West Point, NewYork, has been featured in IEEE
Security and Privacy, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Computer
Graphics and Applications. He has spoken at a wide range of
academic and hacker conferences, including Black Hat, DEFCON, and the
Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC). Conti runs the
open source security visualization project RUMINT
(http://www.rumint.org/).

Additional Resources:
For more information about the book, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271433/index.html
To view the table of contents, visit:
http://nostarch.com/securityvisualization_toc.htm
Download Chapter 5: One Night on my ISP
http://nostarch.com/download/securityviz_ch05.pdf

Security Data Visualization
Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis
by Greg Conti
October 2007, 252 pp., full-color, ISBN 978-1-59327-143-5, US $49.95

In fine bookstores everywhere, from www.oreilly.com/nostarch, or directly
from No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com, orders@nostarch.com,
800.420.7240). 

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