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By Neil Daswani & Anita Kesavan
Apress Paperback (320 pages)
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Product Description:
Information Technology is for everyone, not just geeks. But that means security is everyone's business, as you will discover in the pages of this excellent book!
— Vinton G. Cerf - a Founding Father of the Internet This book serves as a great complement to the courses that make up the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) Security Certification Program. The book explains in detail how to defend against a wide range of attacks, and teaches principles of secure system design.
— Dr. Dan Boneh, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know teaches new and current software professionals state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques they need to build secure software systems. Once youre enabled with the techniques covered in this book, you can start to alleviate some of the inherent vulnerabilities that make todays software so susceptible to attack. The book uses web servers and web applications as running examples throughout the book. For the past few years, the Internet has had a "wild, wild west" flavor to it. Credit card numbers are stolen in massive numbers. Commercial web sites have been shut down by Internet worms. Poor privacy practices come to light and cause great embarrassment to the corporations behind them. All these security-related issues contribute at least to a lack of trust and loss of goodwill. Often there is a monetary cost as well, as companies scramble to clean up the mess when they get spotlighted by poor security practices. It takes time to build trust with users, and trust is hard to win back. Security vulnerabilities get in the way of that trust. Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know helps you manage risk due to insecure code and build trust with users by showing how to write code to prevent, detect, and contain attacks. - The lead author cofounded the Stanford Center for Professional Development Computer Security Certification.
- This book teaches you how to be more vigilant and develop a sixth sense for identifying and eliminating potential security vulnerabilities.
- Youll receive hands-on code examples for a deep and practical understanding of security.
- Youll learn enough about security to get the job done.
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O'Reilly Media Paperback (304 pages)
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Product Description: In this thought-provoking anthology, today's security experts describe bold and extraordinary methods used to secure computer systems in the face of ever-increasing threats. Beautiful Security features a collection of essays and insightful analyses by leaders such as Ben Edelman, Grant Geyer, John McManus, and a dozen others who have found unusual solutions for writing secure code, designing secure applications, addressing modern challenges such as wireless security and Internet vulnerabilities, and much more. Among the book's wide-ranging topics, you'll learn how new and more aggressive security measures work--and where they will lead us. Topics include: - Rewiring the expectations and assumptions of organizations regarding security
- Security as a design requirement
- Evolution and new projects in Web of Trust
- Legal sanctions to enforce security precautions
- An encryption/hash system for protecting user data
- The criminal economy for stolen information
- Detecting attacks through context
Go beyond the headlines, hype, and hearsay. With Beautiful Security, you'll delve into the techniques, technology, ethics, and laws at the center of the biggest revolution in the history of network security. It's a useful and far-reaching discussion you can't afford to miss. |
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By Simson Garfinkel & Alan Schwartz PH.D.
O'Reilly Media Paperback (992 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion for the Unix/Linux system administrator who needs to secure his or her organization's system, networks, and web presence in an increasingly hostile world. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more. Packed with 1000 pages of helpful text, scripts, checklists, tips, and warnings, Practical Unix & Internet Security remains the definitive reference for Unix administrators and anyone who cares about protecting their systems and data from today's threats. |
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By Merike Kaeo
Cisco Press Hardcover (768 pages)
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Master the design of secure networks with the updated edition of this best-selling security guide - Gain a comprehensive view of network security issues and concepts, then master specific implementations based on your network needs
- Learn how to use new and legacy Cisco Systems equipment to secure your networks
- Understand how to design and build security services while also learning the legal and network accessibility impact of those services
Designing Network Security, Second Edition is a practical guide designed to help you understand the fundamentals of securing your corporate network infrastructure. In addition it provides a complete description of Cisco security products and useful implementation examples. You will gain a thorough understanding of basic cryptography and the most widely deployed security technologies. You will be able to guide the architecture and implementation of a security policy for a corporate environment by knowing possible threats and vulnerabilities, and understanding the steps required to perform a risk management assessment. Examine underlying security technologies, the process of creating a security policy, the practical requirements necessary to implement a corporate security policy, the latest security technology enhancements, and recent legal issues. This book also allows you to view many of the new Cisco security products including Altiga, and the NetRanger intrusion detection system. Through the use of specific configuration examples, you will learn to specify the features required in network infrastructure equipment to implement the given security policy, including securing the internal corporate infrastructure, Internet access, and the remote access environment. In addition, practical scenarios dealing specifically with certain types of networks such as voice, storage, VPN, will translate theory into real-world situations. |
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By John Viega
O'Reilly Media Paperback (264 pages)
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Click Here | - ISBN13: 9780596523022
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Product Description:
If you think computer security has improved in recent years, The Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega, formerly Chief Security Architect at McAfee, reports on the sorry state of the industry, and offers concrete suggestions for professionals and individuals confronting the issue. Why is security so bad? With many more people online than just a few years ago, there are more attackers -- and they're truly motivated. Attacks are sophisticated, subtle, and harder to detect than ever. But, as Viega notes, few people take the time to understand the situation and protect themselves accordingly. This book tells you: - Why it's easier for bad guys to "own" your computer than you think
- Why anti-virus software doesn't work well -- and one simple way to fix it
- Whether Apple OS X is more secure than Windows
- What Windows needs to do better
- How to make strong authentication pervasive
- Why patch management is so bad
- Whether there's anything you can do about identity theft
- Five easy steps for fixing application security, and more
Provocative, insightful, and always controversial, The Myths of Security not only addresses IT professionals who deal with security issues, but also speaks to Mac and PC users who spend time online. |
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By T. Bradley
Syngress Paperback (279 pages)
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Product Description: Essential Computer Security provides the vast home user and small office computer market with the information they must know in order to understand the risks of computing on the Internet and what they can do to protect themselves.
Tony Bradley is the Guide for the About.com site for Internet Network Security. In his role managing the content for a site that has over 600,000 page views per month and a weekly newsletter with 25,000 subscribers, Tony has learned how to talk to people, everyday people, about computer security. Intended for the security illiterate, Essential Computer Security is a source of jargon-less advice everyone needs to operate their computer securely.
* Written in easy to understand non-technical language that novices can comprehend
* Provides detailed coverage of the essential security subjects that everyone needs to know
* Covers just enough information to educate without being overwhelming |
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By Preston Gralla
Que Paperback (288 pages)
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In 2003, fraud and identity theft cost consumers at least $437 million dollars. In 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission received 247,000 consumer complaints in 2004 (up 15% from 2003), from individuals whose identity was stolen, and according to Reuters.com (2/2005), Americans lost $548 million dollars to identity theft and consumer fraud in 2004. Don't allow yourself to become a part of the statistics! How Personal and Internet Security Works illustrates in vivid detail the many dangers faced by those who use the Internet to send or receive email, surf the Web, conduct personal business, use a credit card, or even travel to airports and how those dangers can be solved. You'll also get detailed explanations of Internet privacy issues such as spyware, phishing, identity theft, data mining, biometrics, and security cameras, as well as Homeland Security issues such as airport scanning and terrorist screening. |
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By Erik Schetina & Jacob Carlson
Pearson Education Paperback (432 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Internet Site Security moves from high-level architecture and concepts to a proven methodology for securing a site. Details are provided with regard to specific risks, so that everyone concerned with the sites' security can learn to clearly see them, and make accurate assessments of potential solutions. |
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By Uyless D. Black
Prentice Hall PTR Hardcover (304 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: A networking professional's guide to providing end-to-end and gateway Internet security for the user's information. Covers the essential Internet security protocols designed to protect IP traffic. DLC: Computer networks--Security measures. |
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