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Author: Charles P. Pfleeger
ISBN : 0132789469
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“In this book, the authors adopt a refreshingly new approach to explaining the intricacies of the security and privacy challenge that is particularly well suited to today’s cybersecurity challenges. Their use of the threat–vulnerability–countermeasure paradigm combined with extensive real-world examples throughout results in a very effective learning methodology.”
—Charles C. Palmer, IBM Research
The Modern Introduction to Computer Security: Understand Threats, Identify Their Causes, and Implement Effective Countermeasures
Analyzing Computer Security is a fresh, modern, and relevant introduction to computer security. Organized around today’s key attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures, it helps you think critically and creatively about computer security—so you can prevent serious problems and mitigate the effects of those that still occur.
In this new book, renowned security and software engineering experts Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger—authors of the classic Security in Computing—teach security the way modern security professionals approach it: by identifying the people or things that may cause harm, uncovering weaknesses that can be exploited, and choosing and applying the right protections. With this approach, not only will you study cases of attacks that have occurred, but you will also learn to apply this methodology to new situations.
The book covers “hot button” issues, such as authentication failures, network interception, and denial of service. You also gain new insight into broader themes, including risk analysis, usability, trust, privacy, ethics, and forensics. One step at a time, the book systematically helps you develop the problem-solving skills needed to protect any information infrastructure.
Coverage includes
Understanding threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures
Knowing when security is useful, and when it’s useless “security theater”
Implementing effective identification and authentication systems
Using modern cryptography and overcoming weaknesses in cryptographic systems
Protecting against malicious code: viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits, keyloggers, and more
Understanding, preventing, and mitigating DOS and DDOS attacks
Architecting more secure wired and wireless networks
Building more secure application software and operating systems through more solid designs and layered protection
Protecting identities and enforcing privacy
Addressing computer threats in critical areas such as cloud computing, e-voting, cyberwarfare, and social media
Direct download links available for Free Analyzing Computer Security: A Threat / Vulnerability / Countermeasure Approach [Hardcover]
- Hardcover: 896 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September 4, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132789469
- ISBN-13: 978-0132789462
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.2 x 9.1 inches
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Free Analyzing Computer Security: A Threat / Vulnerability / Countermeasure Approach
A core value of this publication is the Threat-Vulnerability-Countermeasure paradigm the authors adopted in exploring a wide range of computer security challenges: threats as the potential for harm from multiple sources, vulnerability as an identifiable system weakness, and countermeasure or control as means of defense and protection. When combined with numerous encyclopedic explanations, this makes it a solid security reference and solutions guide.
Given the multiple intended audiences for this book (students, computing professionals, and end-users) the exercises at the end of each chapter are an expected standard fare. But for those readers in a deep dive mode, they facilitate not only a means of review but also a mechanism for a further exploration of covered topics. Chapter titles are humorous, euphemistic at times, drawing and engaging the reader into the real security story behind them.
References to recent high-profile cyber events and several interludes (mini-chapters) on Cyber Warfare, Electronic Voting, and Cloud Computing are a welcome addition to this already solid computing security reference. I am keeping it close by, within reach.
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