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Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.
Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include:
The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on their prey
How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help or hurt our online security
How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security to a higher level
The real, little-publicized history of PGP
This book includes contributions from:
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
Jim Stickley
Elizabeth Nichols
Chenxi Wang
Ed Bellis
Ben Edelman
Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas
Kathy Wang
Mark Curphey
John McManus
James Routh
Randy V. Sabett
Anton Chuvakin
Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy
Peter Wayner
Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco
All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Über den Autor / die Autorin
John Viega, the founder and CEO of Stonewall Software, is a well-known security expert and the coauthor of Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley) and Network Security with OpenSSL (O'Reilly). John is responsible for numerous software security tools and is the original author of Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager. He holds a B.A. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Virginia. John is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) and is a senior policy researcher at the Cyberspace Policy Institute. He serves on the technical advisory boardfor the Open Web Applications Security Project. He also founded a Washington, D.C.-area security interest group that conducts monthly lectures presented by leading experts in the field. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 80 technical publications, including numerous refereed research papers and trade articles.
Zusammenfassung
An anthology that describes methods used to secure computer systems in the face of threats. It covers topics that include: rewiring the expectations and assumptions of organizations regarding security; security as a design requirement; evolution and new projects in Web of Trust; and, legal sanctions to enforce security precautions.
