Preface      
        
Part I: User Guide
                1. Introduction
                2. Installation
                3. Configuration
                4. Logging
                5. Rule Language Overview
                6. Rule Language Tutorial
                7. Rule Configuration
                8. Persistent Storage 
                9. Practical Rule Writing
                10. Performance
                11. Content Injection           
                12. Writing Rules in Lua
                13. Handling XML
                14. Extending Rule Language
        
Part II: Reference Manual
                15. Directives
                16. Variables
                17. Transformation Functions
                18. Actions
                19. Operators
                20. Data Formats Guide
                
Index

About the Author

Ivan Ristić is a security researcher, engineer, and author, known especially for his contributions to the web application firewall field and development of ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall, and for his SSL/TLS and PKI research, tools and guides published on the SSL Labs web site. He is the author of two books, Apache Security and ModSecurity Handbook, which he publishes via Feisty Duck, his own platform for continuous writing and publishing. Ivan is an active participant in the security community and you'll often find him speaking at security conferences such as Black Hat, RSA, OWASP AppSec, and others. He's currently Director of Application Security Research at Qualys.