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Balancingprincipleandpractice—anupdatedsurveyofthefast-movingworldofcomputerandnetworksecurity
ComputerSecurity:PrinciplesandPractice,4thEdition,isidealforcoursesinComputer/NetworkSecurity.Theneedforeducationincomputersecurityandrelatedtopicscontinuestogrowatadramaticrate—andisessentialforanyonestudyingComputerScienceorComputerEngineering.Writtenforbothanacademicandprofessionalaudience,the4thEditioncontinuestosetthestandardforcomputersecuritywithabalancedpresentationofprinciplesandpractice.Theneweditioncapturesthemostup-to-dateinnovationsandimprovementswhilemaintainingbroadandcomprehensivecoverageoftheentirefield.Theextensiveofferingofprojectsprovidesstudentswithhands-onexperiencetoreinforceconceptsfromthetext.Therangeofsupplementalonlineresourcesforinstructorsprovidesadditionalteachingsupportforthisfast-movingsubject.
TheneweditioncoversallsecuritytopicsconsideredCoreintheACM/IEEEComputerScienceCurricula2013,aswellassubjectareasforCISSP(CertifiedInformationSystemsSecurityProfessional)certification.ThistextbookcanbeusedtoprepforCISSPCertificationandisoftenreferredtoasthe‘goldstandard’whenitcomestoinformationsecuritycertification.Thetextprovidesin-depthcoverageofComputerSecurity,TechnologyandPrinciples,SoftwareSecurity,ManagementIssues,CryptographicAlgorithms,InternetSecurityandmore.
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．DatacentersecuritydiscussioninChapter5coversdatacentersecurityandtheTIA-492specificationofreliabilitytiers.
．MalwarematerialinChapter6includesadditionalmaterialonmacrovirusesandtheirstructure,astheyarenowthemostcommonformofvirusmalware.
．VirtualizationsecuritymaterialinChapter12hasbeenextended,giventherisinguseofsuchsystemsbyorganizationsandincloudcomputingenvironments.Adiscussionofvirtualfirewalls,whichmaybeusedtohelpsecuretheseenvironments,hasalsobeenadded.
．CloudsecuritydiscussioninChapter13includesanintroductiontocloudcomputing,keycloudsecurityconcepts,ananalysisofapproachestocloudsecurity,andanopen-sourceexample.
．IoTsecurityindiscussionChapter13coverssecurityfortheInternetofThings(IoT).ThediscussionincludesanintroductiontoIoT,anoverviewofIoTsecurityissues,andanopen-sourceexample.
．SEIMdiscussioninChapter18isupdatedforSecurityInformationandEventManagement(SIEM)Systems.
．PrivacysectioncoversprivacyissuesanditsmanagementinChapter19.Thesectionhasbeenextendedwithadditionaldiscussionofmoralandlegalapproaches,andtheprivacyissuesrelatedtobigdata.
．Authenticatedencryptionhasbecomeanincreasinglywidespreadcryptographictoolinavarietyofapplicationsandprotocols.Chapter21includesanewdiscussionofauthenticateddescriptionanddescribesanimportantauthenticatedencryptionalgorithmknownasoffsetcodebook(OCB)mode.
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