QA76.9

0-8247-5939-7

Statistical methods in computer security.

Title main entry. Ed. by William W. S. Chen. (Statistics; textbooks and monographs)

Marcel Dekker, [c]2005

352 p.

$89.95

Contributors of these 19 articles concentrate on the security needs of academia, industry and government through analysis of computer security policy, Internet security, firewalls, virus protection and statistic methods of computer security. Their topics include taking a holistic approach in security policy, managing risks, experimenting in wireless Internet security, using COTS-based architecture or a distributed embedded firewall, using operating system wrappers on commercial firewalls. They also cover a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) with reintroduction for computer virus epidemics, using statistics to discern human ssh traffic from machine scp traffic, passive detection of denial of service attacks on the Internet, the extinction of the SIS Stochastic Logistic Epidemic, one-way functions, policy-based authentication, the evolution of viruses and worms, distributed monitoring and management, and a new model for probabilistic information on the web. Included is an expert roundtable on firewalls.

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