Title: Statistical methods in computer security /
Authors: Chen, William W. S.
Date: 2005
Publisher: Marcel Dekker,
Physical description: xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: "This reference discusses the most influential advancements in computer security policy, Internet and password security, virus protection, and firewalls - summarizing discussions held at the recent Joint Statistical Meeting for a clear layout of current applications in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Development of organizational Internet security policy : a holistic approach / Sharman Lichtenstein -- Managing software security risks : buffer overflows and beyond / Gary McGraw -- Experiments in wireless Internet security / Vipul Gupta and Sumit Gupta -- The neverending saga of Internet security : why? how? and what to do next? / Eddie Rabinovitch -- Secure compartmented data access over an untrusted network using a COTS-based architecture / Paul C. Clark, Marion C. Meissner and Karen O. Vance -- Internet security / Matt Bishop, Steven Cheung, Jeremy Frank, James Hoagland, Steven Samorodin and Chris Wee -- Computer security : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Catherine Meadows -- Architecture and applications for a distributed embedded firewall / Charles Payne and Tom Markham -- Using operating system wrappers to increase the resiliency of commercial firewalls / Jeremy Epstein, Linda Thomas and Eric Monteith -- A susceptible-infected-susceptible model with reintroduction for computer virus epidemics / John C. Wierman -- Man vs. machine - a study of the ability of statistical methodologies to discern human generated ssh traffic from machine generated scp traffic / J. L. Solka, M. L. Adams and E. J. Wegman -- Passive detection of denial of service attacks on the Internet / David J. Marchette -- On the extinction of the S-I-S stochastic logistic epidemic / Richard J. Kryscio and Claude Lefevre -- Secure introduction of one-way functions / Dennis Volpano -- Policy-based authentication and authorization / Jeff Hayes -- The evolution of viruses and worms / Thomas M. Chen and Jean-Marc Robert -- Infrastructure Web : distributed monitoring and managing critical infrastructures / Guofei Jiang, George Cybenko and Dennis McGrath -- Firewalls : an expert roundtable / James P. Anderson, Sheila Brand, Li Gong and Thomas Haigh -- A new model for probabilistic information retrieval on the Web / Gabriel Mateeseu, Masha Sosonkina and Paul Thompson.
Subject headings (LCSH): Computer security--Statistical methods.