This chapter introduces the principles of network security monitoring (NSM), which is the collection, analysis, and escalation of indications and warnings to detect and respond to intrusions. NSM is a way to find intruders on your network and do something about them before they damage your enterprise. NSM began as an informal discipline with Todd Heberlein’s development of the Network Securit…
OpenSSL is a popular and effective open source version of SSL/TLS, the most widely used protocol for secure network communications. The only guide available on the subject, Network Security with OpenSSLdetails the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges. Focused on the practical, this book provides only the information …
I’m not a historian. Nor am I a pirate. I’m an economist with a long-standing interest in privately created law and order who happened to wonder one day how pirates cooperated since they had no government. Like many others, my interest in pirates goes back many years. I went to Disney World when I was eight; Pirates of the Caribbean was my favorite ride. My parents bought me a “silver” …
The subject of financial markets is fascinating to many people: to those who care about money and investments, to those who care about the well-being of modern society, to those who like gambling, to those who like applications of mathematics, and so on. We, the authors of this book, care about many of these things (no, not the gambling), but what we care about most is teaching. The main reason…
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This text is part of the subject matter of the course on Basics of Traffic Engineering (H111) taught to the students in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium). The text is intended to introduce the student to some elementary principles of transport economics and may serve as a stepping stone to more advanced courses. This is a preliminary version …