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Title: Buy the Northcutt book instead
Review: This is just not a useful book. Half of the book is not about intrusion detection at all--it consists of an uninspiring general introduction to computer security.The author apparently has no actual experience in the subject. It is filled with innaccuracies. Confusing 'hash value' with 'digital signature' is a common rookie mistake, but it is typical of the inexcusable lack of precision in this text.Besides being misleading, off-subject, and out-of-date, it is deadly boring. If you want a hands-on book, get the Northcutt text. If you want an academic and useful theoretical approach, get Amoroso's book. If you want an introductory text on information security, why would you buy a book on IDS?It is apparent that Wiley badly wanted to publish a book on intrusion detection, and the author was all too willing to squeeze his existing square peg of a security text into an ill-fitting IDS round hole.
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