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Botnet Detection

Countering the Largest Security Threat

  • First book on Botnets — the #1 security threat
  • Includes Botnet detection techniques and response strategies
  • Latest results from leading academic, industry and government experts in security
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Botnet Detection Based on Network Behavior

    • W. Timothy Strayer, David Lapsely, Robert Walsh, Carl Livadas
    Pages 1-24
  3. Honeynet-based Botnet Scan Traffic Analysis

    • Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen
    Pages 25-44
  4. Characterizing Bots’ Remote Control Behavior

    • Elizabeth Stinson, John C. Mitchell
    Pages 45-64
  5. Automatically Identifying Trigger-based Behavior in Malware

    • David Brumley, Cody Hartwig, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, Dawn Song, Heng Yin
    Pages 65-88
  6. Towards Sound Detection of Virtual Machines

    • Jason Franklin, Mark Luk, Jonathan M. McCune, Arvind Seshadri, Adrian Perrig, Leendert van Doorn
    Pages 89-116
  7. Botnets and Proactive System Defense

    • John Bambenek, Agnes Klus
    Pages 117-130
  8. Detecting Botnet Membership with DNSBL Counterintelligence

    • Anirudh Ramachandran, Nick Feamster, David Dagon
    Pages 131-142
  9. A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures

    • David Dagon, Guofei Gu, Christopher P. Lee
    Pages 143-164
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-167

About this book

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.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia Institute Technology College of Computing, Atlanta

    Wenke Lee, David Dagon

  • US Army Research Office Computing and Information Science Div

    Cliff Wang

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 169.00
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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