Название: The Reign of Botnets: Defending Against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet (Tech Today)
Автор: David Sénécal
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2024
Страниц: 253
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 43.8 MB
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 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.