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Author: David Basin
ISBN : B00D8D1XSY
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Download file now Free Applied Information Security [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation. The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vulnerabilities arise and practical experience tackling them.After presenting the basics of security principles, virtual environments, and network services, the authors explain the core security principles of authentication and access control, logging and log analysis, web application security, certificates and public-key cryptography, and risk management. The book concludes with appendices on the design of related courses, report templates, and the basics of Linux as needed for the assignments.The authors have successfully taught IT security to students and professionals using the content of this book and the laboratory setting it describes. The book can be used in undergraduate or graduate laboratory courses, complementing more theoretically oriented courses, and it can also be used for self-study by IT professionals who want hands-on experience in applied information security. The authors' supporting software is freely available online and the text is supported throughout with exercises.Direct download links available for Free Applied Information Security [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 2764 KB
- Print Length: 220 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2011 edition (June 4, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D8D1XSY
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Free Applied Information Security
In Applied Information Security: A Hands-on Approach, authors David Basin, Patrick Schaller and Michael Schläpfer detail some of the labs exercises and texts that they used for courses they gave at ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), an engineering and science -based university in Zurich, Switzerland.
In fewer than 200 pages, the book is an intense introduction to the fundamentals of information security. The authors wrote the book to be used as a primary reference for an undergraduate or post-graduate level course.
The book is written by college professors for a college level reader, and it is expected that the reader have a solid understanding of networks and programming. The book is made for the reader looking to take their core technical knowledge and apply it to information security.
The main focus of the book is on network security, O/S security and web applications. Large tomes could be written on the security aspects of each of these, so the book should not be seen as a definitive reference, rather an introductory text.
The reader is expected to complete the labs to get the full benefit of the text. These labs can be downloaded here.
This is not a For Dummies style of book with the verbosity that comes along with it. But for those looking for an intense but brief and concentrated introduction to some of the fundamentals of information security, to supplement other more comprehensive references, Applied Information Security: A Hands-on Approach, is a an excellent book.
By Ben Rothke
My students and I are big fans of this book. I have been using it regularly, since its publication, in the course "Network Security" that I teach in the Master of Science Program "Engineering and Computer Science" at the University of Verona, Italy. The course is structured in a number of theory lectures, covering the main aspects of network security, accompanied by a lab in which I have adopted the "Applied Information Security: A Hands-on Approach" book.
The book does what it promises and complements in an interesting and unique way the theory lectures: it allows students to carry out exercises and experiments on the topics that have been discussed in the lectures and, thanks to the accompanying software, they can choose to do this in the university lab or at home (or both). The assignment project proposed at the end of the book challenges the students in a very proficient way and, indeed, the ratings of the course have risen considerably since I adopted the book.
By Luca Vigan?