Florian Skopik is Head of the Cyber Security Research Program at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) with a team comprising around 30 people. He spent 10+ years in cyber security research, before, and partly in parallel, another 15 years in software development. Nowadays, he coordinates national and large-scale international research projects, as well as the overall research direction of the team. His main interests are centered on critical infrastructure protection, smart grid security and national cyber security and defense. Since 2018, Florian further works as ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. Before joining AIT in 2011, Florian was with the Distributed Systems Group at the Vienna University of Technology as a research assistant and post-doctoral research scientist from 2007 to 2011, where he was involved in a number of international research projects dealing with cross-organizational collaboration over the Web. In context of these projects, he also finished his PhD studies. Florian further spent a sabbatical at IBM Research India in Bangalore for several months. He published more than 125 scientific conference papers and journal articles and holds more than 50 industry recognized security certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CCNP Security. In 2017 he finished a professional degree in Advanced Computer Security at the Stanford University, USA. Florian is member of various conference program committees and editorial boards and standardization groups, such as ETSI TC Cyber and OASIS CTI. He frequently serves as reviewer for numerous high-profile journals, including Elsevier's Computers & Security. He is registered subject matter expert of ENISA in the areas of new ICTs and emerging application areas as well as Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) and CSIRTs cooperation. In his career, he gave several keynote speeches, organized scientific panel discussions at flagship conferences, such as a smart grid security panel at the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) conference in Washington D.C., and acted as co-moderator of the National Austrian Cyber Security Challenge 2017, and as jury member of the United Nations Cyber Security Challenge 2019. Florian is IEEE Senior Member, Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member of (ISC)2, Member of ISACA and Member of the International Society of Automation (ISA).

Contains a comprehensive presentation of novel methods to parse, process and analyze log data

Provides insights into the inner mechanisms of novel machine learning approaches

Presents step-by-step examples to make the material easily accessible

Examples throughout the book are supported by Open-Source software

I1.- Introduction.- 1.1 State of the art in security monitoring and anomaly detection.- 1.2 Current trends.- 1.3. future challenges.- 1.4 Log data analysis: today and tomorrow.- 1.5 Smart log data analytics: Structure of the book.- 1.6 Try it out: Hands-on examples throughout the book.- 2 Survey on log clustering approaches.- 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Survey background.- 2.1 The nature of log data. 2.2 Static clustering.- 2.3 Dynamic clustering.- 2.4 Applications in the security domain.- 2.3 Survey method.- 2.3.1 Set of criteria.- 2.3.2 Literature search.- 2.4 Survey results.- 2.4.1 Purpose and applicability (P).- 2.4.2 Clustering techniques (C).- 2.4.3 Anomaly detection (AD).- 2.4.4 Evaluation (E). 2.4.5 Discussion.- 2.5 Conclusion.- 3 Incremental log data clustering for processing large amounts of data online.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Concept for incremental clustering.- 3.2.1 Incremental clustering.- 3.2.2 Description of model.- 3.2.3 String metrics.- 3.2.4 Description of model M1.¿¿ 3.2.5 Time series analysis.- 3.3 Outlook and further development.- 3.4 Try it out.- 3.4.1 Exim Mainlog.- 3.4.2 Messages log file.- 4 Generating character-based templates for log data.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Concept for generating character-based templates.- 4.3 Cluster template generator algorithms4.3.1 Initial matching.- 4.3.2 Merge algorithm.-4.3.3 Length algorithm.- 4.3.4 Equalmerge algorithm.- 4.3.5 Token_char algorithm.- 4.3.6 Comparison.- 4.4 Outlook and further development.- 4.5 Try it out .- 4.5.1 Exim Mainlog.- 5 Time series analysis for temporal anomaly detection5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Concept for dynamic clustering and AD.- 5.3 Cluster evolution.- 5.3.1 Clustering model.- 5.3.2 Tracking.- 5.3.3 Transitions.- 5.3.4 Evolution metrics .- 5.4 Time series analysis.- 5.4.1 Model.- 5.4.2 Forecast.- 5.4.3 Correlation.- 5.4.4 Detection.- 5.5 Example.- 5.5.1 Long-term analysis of Suricata logs.- 5.5.2 Short-term analysis of Audit logs.- 6 AECID: A light-weight log analysis approach for online anomaly detection.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The AECID approach.- 6.2.1 AMiner.- 6.2. AECID central.- 6.2. Detecting anomalies.- 6.2. Rule generator.- 6.2. Correlation engine.- 6.2. Detectable anomalies.- 6. System deployment and operation.- 6. Application scenarios.- 6. Try it out.- 6.5.1 Configuration of the AMiner for AIT-LDSv1. - 6.5.2 Apache Access logs.- 6.5.3 Exim Mainlog file.- 6.5.4 Audit logs.- 7. A concept for a tree-based log parser generator.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Tree-based parser concept.- 7.3 AECID-PG: tree-based log parser generator.- 7.3.1 Challenges when generating tree-like parsers.- 7.3.2 AECID-PG concept.- 7.3.3 AECID-PG rules.- 7.3.4 Features.- 7.4 Outlook and further application.- 7.5 Try it out.- 7.5.1 Exim Mainlog.- 7.5.2 Audit logs.- 8 Variable type detector for statistical analysis of log tokens.- 8.1 Introduction.-.-8.2 Variable type detector concept.- 8.3 Variable type detector algorithm.- 8.3.1 Sanitize log data.- 8.3.2 Initialize types.- 8.3.3 Update types.- 8.3.4 Compute indicators.- 8.3.5 Select tokens.- 8.3.6 Compute indicator weights.- 8.3.7 Report anomalies.- 8.4 Try it out.- 8.4.1 Apache Access log.- 9. Final remarks.