his title teaches IT and security staff how to leverage powerful network security monitoring tools and concepts to identify threats quickly and effectively.

Foreword / by Todd Heberlein -- Preface -- Part I. Getting Started -- The Rationale -- Collecting Traffic -- Part II. Security Onion Deployment -- Standalone Deployment -- Distributed Deployment -- Housekeeping -- Part III. Tools -- Command Line Packet Analysis Tools -- Graphical Packet Analysis Tools -- Consoles -- Part III. NSM in Action -- Collection, Analysis, Escalation, and Resolution -- Server-Side Compromise -- Client-Side Compromise -- Extending SO -- Proxies and Checksums -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Security Onion Scripts and Configuration / by Doug Burks.