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A top-to-bottom discussion of website bot attacks and how to defend against them.
In The Reign of Botnets: Defending Against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet, fraud and bot detection expert David Senecal delivers a timely and incisive presentation of the contemporary bot threat landscape and the latest defense strategies used by leading companies to protect themselves. The author uses plain language to lift the veil on bots and fraud, making a topic critical to your website's security easy to understand and even easier to implement.
This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the threat landscape and defense strategies. It provides some insight into the evolution of attacks and defense strategies over time, the motivation of attackers, how detection methods work, and how to analyze the traffic to assess accuracy and decide on the most appropriate response strategy. The knowledge acquired from this book will help security teams regain their advantage over attackers.
You'll learn how attackers think, what motivates them, how their strategies have evolved over time, and how website owners have changed their own behaviors to keep up with their adversaries. You'll also discover how you can best respond to patterns and incidents that pose a threat to your site, your business, and your customers.
The book includes:
A description of common bot detection techniques exploring the difference between positive and negative security strategies and other key concepts
A method for assessing and analyzing bot activity, to evaluate the accuracy of the detection and understand the botnet sophistication
A discussion about the challenge of data collection for the purpose of providing security and balancing the ever-present needs for user privacy
Who Should Read This Book:
The target audience for this book includes web security professionals, website administrators, and anyone interested in or wanting to learn more about web security and, more specifically, bot management and automated fraud detection. No specific prior knowledge or experience is required to understand the content of this book. Beginners will learn the basics of the Internet and web security while progressively diving deeper into bots, fraud, and abuse detection and mitigation. Web security practitioners with intermediate or advanced knowledge will better understand the threat evolution and the methods and best practices to mitigate attacks consistently and successfully. Executives and decision-makers reading this book will better appreciate the topic without the common vendor buzzwords or marketing bias, which will help them ask the right questions and make informed buy or build decisions. Technology managers (product managers) and implementers (security architects, developers, solution architects) will better understand the context of the bot problem and the best practices to integrate and use bot management technology to drive the most optimal outcome. Data scientists, data analysts, and security operation support staff monitoring and evaluating the activity detected will be able to interpret the data with a full understanding of the problem and help make data- and context-driven decisions to support the needs of their organization. Students in the field of computer science who are attracted to the cybersecurity space will gain a general understanding of the most critical security issues that affect online businesses today.
Contents:
Introduction
A Short History of the Internet
The Most Common Attacks Using Botnets
The Evolution of Botnet Attacks
Detection Strategy
Assessing Detection Accuracy
Defense and Response Strategy
Internet User Privacy
References
Index
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