Analyzing Computer Security

"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

Dr. Charles P. Pfleeger, an independent computer and information security consultant, provides threat/vulnerability analysis, design review, training, expert testimony, and security advice to clients worldwide. He was master security architect at Cable and Wireless and Exodus Communications, and professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Pfleeger is coauthor of Security in Computing, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007), today's leading college computer security textbook. Dr. Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is Director of Research for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at Dartmouth College, a consortium working to protect the U.S. cyber infrastructure. The Journal of Systems and Software has repeatedly named her one of the world's top software engineering researchers. Dr. Pfleeger is coauthor of Security in Computing, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007), today's leading college computer security textbook.

- Chapter 1: Security Blanket or Security Theater? - Chapter 2: Knock, Knock. Who's There? - Chapter 3: 2 + 2 = 5 - Chapter 4: A Horse of a Different Color - Chapter 5: The Keys to the Kingdom - Chapter 6: My Cup Runneth Over - Chapter 7: He Who Steals My Purse . . . - Chapter 8: The Root of All Evil - Chapter 9: Scanning the Horizon - Chapter 10: Do You Hear What I Hear? - Chapter 11: I Hear You Loud and Clear - Chapter 12: Disregard That Man Behind the Curtain - Chapter 13: Not All Is as It Seems - Chapter 14: Play It [Again] Sam, or, Let's Look at the Instant Replay - Chapter 15: I Can't Get No Satisfaction - Chapter 16: 'Twas Brillig, and the Slithy Toves . . . - Chapter 17: Peering through the Window 676 - Chapter 18: My 100,000 Nearest and Dearest Friends - Afterword