I really need a solid yet reasonably simple to follow book on data mining for security detection. Could anyone please suggest a good text?

Thank you.

Respectfully,

J  

Hmmm. Data Mining usually refers to manipulating large quantities of database information to extract correlations. The beer and diapers relationship for example. In such a context, there's many texts available. In what context are you thinking of data mining?
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Dennis 

It might be just me, but I'm not clear what "data mining for security detection" means (although I could make a few guesses). Can you elaborate?  

Aha, Dennis you beat me to it!  

If you're talking about log analysis, then Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit (Syngress 2005) was pretty good if you want to analyze Windows event logs. I'd stay away from "Security Log Management" book though, I was really disapointed with that one, and it even reprinted some chapters from Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit. Those are the only books that I'm aware of that you might be interested in.  

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