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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


Charles Pfleeger, Shari Pfleeger
Jan 2012, Paperback, 848 pages
ISBN13: 9780132839402
ISBN10: 0132839407
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