Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications

Worldwide computer crimes cost organizations and governments billions of dollars each year. In response, organizations use a plethora of heterogeneous security devices and software such as firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to monitor networks in conjunction with Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) that are responsible for ensuring availability, integrity, and confidentiality of network services. Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications provides academia and organizations insights into practical and applied solutions, frameworks, technologies, and implementations for situational awareness in computer networks. This book presents situational awareness solutions in Computer Network Defense (CND) currently being researched or deployed. The key objective is to fill a gap that exists in the way CND and security are being approached by formalizing the use of situational awareness in computer network security and defense.

Cyril Onwubiko is a leading information security expert and founder of Research Series in London, UK where he leads on intelligence and security assurance, Cyber security and situational awareness in computer network defense. Prior to Research Series, he was an information security consultant at British Telecommunications, CLAS consultant at Cable & Wireless Worldwide and a security analyst at COLT Telecommunications. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Network Security from Kingston University, London, UK. Dr. Onwubiko has authored several books, including "Security Frameworks for Attack Detection in Computer Networks," and has published over 30 academic articles in reputable journals, conference proceedings and edited books. He is a member of the IEEE, Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) and CESG Listed Advisor Scheme (CLAS).

Thomas Owens obtained his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Strathclyde University in 1986. In 1987 he joined as a Lecturer the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Brunel University, which was eventually absorbed into the School of Engineering and Design in 2004, in which he is now a Senior Lecturer. He was the project coordinator of the IST FP5 STREP Project CONFLUENT, of the IST FP6 Integrated Project INSTINCT and of the FP6 SSA Project PARTAKE. He was dissemination manager of the IST Policy Support Project DTV4All. He is the author of more than 90 papers in journals, conference proceedings and edited books.