Intrusion Detection with Snort

Acknowledgments

First and foremost I would like to thank my parents, Jeff and Arlene, for teaching me that “You can do anything you put your mind to” is more than a hollow cliché. I'd also like to thank my brother, Charlie, for inspiring me with his spirit of adventure.

I would also like to thank the folks at Pearson Education for providing me with the opportunity to work on this project, and for guiding me through some rough waters. I wish the best to my acquisitions editors Linda Bump, Jenny Watson, and Stacey Beheler, my development editors Lisa Thibault and Mark Cierzniak, and everyone else who worked diligently behind the scenes to make this book a reality.

The quality and factual consistency of this book would have suffered without the criticism ...