Botnet Detection - Countering the Largest Security Threat

Botnets have become the platform of choice for launching attacks and committing fraud on the Internet. A better understanding of Botnets will help to coordinate and develop new technologies to counter this serious security threat.
Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat, a contributed volume by world-class leaders in this field, is based on the June 2006 ARO workshop on Botnets. This edited volume represents the state-of-the-art in research on Botnets. It provides botnet detection techniques and response strategies, as well as the latest results from leading academic, industry and government researchers.
Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat is intended for researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also appropriate as a secondary text or reference book for advanced-level students in computer science.
 

List of contents

Botnet Detection Based on Network Behavior.- Honeynet-based Botnet Scan Traffic Analysis.- Characterizing Bots' Remote Control Behavior.- Automatically Identifying Trigger-based Behavior in Malware.- Towards Sound Detection of Virtual Machines.- Botnets and Proactive System Defense.- Detecting Botnet Membership with DNSBL Counterintelligence.- A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures.

Summary

Botnets have become the platform of choice for launching attacks and committing fraud on the Internet. A better understanding of Botnets will help to coordinate and develop new technologies to counter this serious security threat. Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat, a contributed volume by world-class leaders in this field, is based on the June 2006 ARO workshop on Botnets. This edited volume represents the state-of-the-art in research on Botnets. It provides botnet detection techniques and response strategies, as well as the latest results from leading academic, industry and government researchers. Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat is intended for researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also appropriate as a secondary text or reference book for advanced-level students in computer science.  

Product details

• Assisted by: David Dagon (Editor), Wenke Lee (Editor), Clif Wang (Editor), Cliff Wang (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441943309
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-4330-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 14 mm x 226 mm
• Weight: 282 g
• Illustrations: XII, 168 p.
• Series: Advances in Information Security; Advances in Information Security; Advances in Cyber Security
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, computer science, Information Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Systems and Data Security, Data and Information Security, Data Structures and Information Theory, Application software, Computer Communication Networks, Algorithms & data structures, Network Security, Computer security, Information theory, Coding theory & cryptology, Internet searching, Computer Engineering and Networks, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Computer organization, Data structures (Computer science), Data encryption, Data encryption (Computer science), Cryptology, Computer communication systems, Computer networking & communications, Network hardware