Preface Part Ⅰ.Data 1. Organizing Data: Vantage, Domain, Action, and Validity Domain Vantage Choosing Vantage Actions: What a Sensor Does with Data Validity and Action Internal Validity External Validity Construct Validity Statistical Validity Attacker and Attack Issues Further Reading 2. Vantage: Understanding Sensor Placement in Networks The Basics of Network Layering Network Layers and Vantage Network Layers and Addressing MAC Addresses IPv4 Format and Addresses IPv6 Format and Addresses Validity Challenges from Middlebox Network Data Further Reading 3. Sensors in the Network Domain Packet and Frame Formats Rolling Buffers Limiting the Data Captured from Each Packet Filtering Specific Types of Packets What If It's Not Ethernet? NetFlow NetFlow v5 Formats and Fields NetFlow Generation and Collection Data Collection via IDS Classifying IDSs IDS as Classifier Improving IDS Performance Enhancing IDS Detection Configuring Snort Enhancing IDS Response Prefetching Data Middlebox Logs and Their Impact VPN Logs Proxy Logs NAT Logs Further Reading 4. Data in the Service Domain What and Why Logfiles as the Basis for Service Data Accessing and Manipulating Logfiles The Contents of Logfiles The Characteristics of a Good Log Message Existing Logfiles and How to Manipulate Them Stateful Logfiles Further Reading 5. Sensors in the Service Domain Representative Logfile Formats HTTP: CLF and ELF Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Sendmail Microsoft Exchange: Message Tracking Logs Additional Useful Logfiles Staged Logging LDAP and Directory Services ……