Analyzing Computer Security: A Threat / Vulnerability / Countermeasure Approach

“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     

Computers & Technology

Pfleeger, Charles P.

Networking & Cloud Computing

Pearson

Security in Computing

This revision of the classic computer security book provides an overview of all types of computer security from centralized systems to distributed networks. The Second Edition has been updated.

Certification

PRENTICE/HALL

<p>Stresses advanced programming techniques (in FORTRAN) with particular applicability to IBM S/360 and PDP-10 series computers. Concepts and facilities are analyzed in depth, from vectors through subroutines, into character manipulation and actual IBM-DEC number representation and storage facilities. Provides complete, detailed coverage, with definitions, full non-trivial examples, and exercises. Includes chapters on data structures and disc and tape use.</p>

Advanced Programming Techniques: A Second Course in Programming Using Fortran

Hughes, Charles E.

Rose, Lawrence L.

Reference

wiley

<p>Describes the internal structure (architecture) of computers and the interface between computers and the programs, using one example each from large mainframes, medium-sized minicomputers, and small microcomputers.</p>

Machine Organization: An Introduction to the Structure and Programming of Computing Systems

Programming

Describes the internal structure (architecture) of computers and the interface between computers and the programs, using one example each from large mainframes, medium-sized minicomputers, and small microcomputers.

Machine Organization: an Introduction to the Structure and Programming of Computing Systems

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.