Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (For the hardcover version, please refer to 0471253111)

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by: Bruce Schneier

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Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a network

Internationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more.

  Walks the reader through the real choices they have now for digital security and how to pick and choose the right one to meet their business needs

Explains what cryptography can and can't do in achieving digital security

Table of Contents

THE LANDSCAPE.

Digital Threats.

  Attacks.

  Adversaries.

  Security Needs.

  TECHNOLOGIES.

  Cryptography.

  Cryptography in Context.

  Computer Security.

  Identification and Authentication.

  Networked-Computer Security.

  Network Security.

  Network Defenses.

  Software Reliability.

  Secure Hardware.

  Certificates and Credentials.

  Security Tricks.

  The Human Factor.

  STRATEGIES.

  Vulnerabilities and the Vulnerability Landscape.

  Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment.

  Security Policies and Countermeasures.

  Attack Trees.

  Product Testing and Verification.

  The Future of Products.

  Security Processes.

  Conclusion.

  Postscript.

  Acknowledgments.