1st Edition

Statistical Methods in Computer Security

Edited By William W.S. Chen Copyright 2004
    376 Pages
    by CRC Press

    376 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Statistical Methods in Computer Security summarizes discussions held at the recent Joint Statistical Meeting to provide a clear layout of current applications in the field. This blue-ribbon reference discusses the most influential advancements in computer security policy, firewalls, and security issues related to passwords. It addresses crime and misconduct on the Internet, considers the development of infrastructures that may prevent breaches of security and law, and illustrates the vulnerability of networked computers to new virus attacks despite widespread deployment of antivirus software, firewalls, and other network security equipment.

    Security Policy. Internet Security. Firewalls. Virus Protection. Statistical Methods in Computer Security: A Study of the Ability of Statistical Methodologies to Discern Human Generate SSH Traffic from Machine Generated SCP Traffic. Passive Detection of Denial of Service Attacks on the Internet. A Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Model with Reintroduction for Computer Virus Epidemics. On the Extinction of the S-I-S Stochastic Logistic Epidemics. A New Model for Probabilisitic Information Retrieval on the Web.

    Biography

    William W.S. Chen