Intrusion Prevention and Active Response provides an introduction to the field of Intrusion Prevention and provides detailed information on various IPS methods and technologies. Specific methods are covered in depth, including both network and host IPS and response technologies such as port deactivation, firewall/router network layer ACL modification, session sniping, outright application layer data modification, system call interception, and application shims.

• Corporate spending for Intrusion Prevention systems increased dramatically by 11% in the last quarter of 2004...

This book is a fascinating and, at times, extraordinary history of a remarkable part of Scotland, based on a collation of primary source documents and other records relating to Redcastle... Redcastle is a place rich with history, from the dangerously unpredictable Kenneth Mackenzie to the gentle reverends who tended the people who lived there, from the Red Castle itself to the manse and every thatched cottage that was part of Redcastle's world. For this book, the author has researched a wide range of sources, covering churches, schools, civil administration, people and places of Redcastle, to...