Predicting Malicious Behavior : Tools and Techniques for Ensuring Global Security

Jackson, Gary M., Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 1118166132 / ISBN 13: 9781118166130

Published by Wiley, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Predicting Malicious Behavior : Tools and Techniques for Ensuring Global Security
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118166132
• ISBN 13: 9781118166130
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

A groundbreaking exploration of how to identify and fight security threats at every level

This revolutionary book combines real-world security scenarios with actual tools to predict and prevent incidents of terrorism, network hacking, individual criminal behavior, and more. Written by an expert with intelligence officer experience who invented the technology, it explores the keys to understanding the dark side of human nature, various types of security threats (current and potential), and how to construct a methodology to predict and combat malicious behavior. The companion CD demonstrates available detection and prediction systems and presents a walkthrough on how to conduct a predictive analysis that highlights proactive security measures.

• Guides you through the process of predicting malicious behavior, using real world examples and how malicious behavior may be prevented in the future
• Illustrates ways to understand malicious intent, dissect behavior, and apply the available tools and methods for enhancing security
• Covers the methodology for predicting malicious behavior, how to apply a predictive methodology, and tools for predicting the likelihood of domestic and global threats
• CD includes a series of walkthroughs demonstrating how to obtain a predictive analysis and how to use various available tools, including Automated Behavior Analysis

Predicting Malicious Behavior fuses the behavioral and computer sciences to enlighten anyone concerned with security and to aid professionals in keeping our world safer.

About the Author

Gary M. Jackson is an Assistant Vice President and Technical Lead within Cyber Operations at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He is the inventor of the CheckMate intrusion protection system and automated behavior analysis (AuBA) methods and tools for predicting malicious behavior. As a former CIA intelligence officer, he has a unique behavior analysis perspective. He has also designed applications for the Secret Service and CIA.