Bejtlich's insights and outlooks when it comes to many different areas of network security monitoring really helped to provide the necessary context for understanding the material, mechanisms, and processes of the field.

There were other readings assigned in the course that were useful, too, of course, and many other sources encountered during the various exercises and research/written work required for the completion of the course that were also beneficial in identifying and illuminating many of the specific areas of concern and of growing knowledge and interest in the network security monitoring field. While Bejtlich (2004) does a tremendous job of introducing and outlining many of the fundamental theories and frameworks within the discipline of network security monitoring, these other sources were also enormously useful in their further commentary on these issues and in the different perspectives that were brought to bear on such things as end-user security, the nature of...
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