Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and its Intrusion Detection Systems line of products is making in roads in the IDS market segment, with major upgrades having happened in February of 2003.

Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the hardware and software that comprise the Cisco IDS. Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems does more than show network engineers how to set up and manage this line of best selling products ... it walks them step by step through all the objectives of the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System course (and corresponding exam) that network engineers must pass on their way to achieving sought-after CCSP certification.

C. Tate Baumrucker (CISSP, CCNP, Sun Enterprise Engineer, MCSE) is a Senior Consultant with Callisma. He is responsible for leading engineering teams in the design and implementation of complex and highly available systems infrastructures and networks. Tate is industry recognized as a subject matter expert in security and LAN/WAN support systems such as HTTP, SMTP, DNS, and DHCP. James D. Burton (CISSP, CCNA, MCSE) is a Colorado Springs-based Systems Security Engineer for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. He currently works at the Joint National Integration Center performing information assurance functions. James has over eight years of security experience having started his career as a Terminal Area Security Officer with the United States Marine Corps. Scott Dentler (CISSP, CCSE, CCSA, MCSE, CCNA) is an IT consultant who has served with companies such as Sprint and H&R Block, giving him exposure to large enterprise networks and corporate environments. He is currently providing systems support for a campus network at a Medical Center with national affiliations. Scott is also a contributing author for Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-74-4). Ido Dubrawsky (CCNA, SCSA) has been working as a UNIX/Network Administrator for over 10 years. He has experience with a variety of UNIX operating systems including Solaris, Linux, BSD, HP-UX, AIX, and Ultrix. He was previously a member of Cisco's Secure Consulting Service providing security posture assessments to Cisco customers and is currently a member of the SAFE architecture team. Michael Sweeney (CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, MCSE) is the owner of the network consulting firm Packetattack.com. His specialties are network design, network troubleshooting, wireless network design, security, and network analysis using NAI Sniffer and Airmagnet for wireless network analysis. Michael’s prior published works include Cisco Security Specialist’s Guide to PIX Firewalls (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-63-9).