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# Hardcover: 784 pages
# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (November 5, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0321247442
# ISBN-13: 978-0321247445
# Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches

From the Back Cover

In this official book, widely reputable practician and pedagogue Matt Bishop presents a country and multipurpose launching to the prowess and power of aggregation security. Bishop’s insights and graphic examples module support some practician or enrollee see the pivotal course between section theory and the day-to-day section challenges of IT environments.

Bishop explains the principle of security: the assorted types of widely utilised policies, the mechanisms that compel these policies, the principles inexplicit both policies and mechanisms, and how attackers crapper depose these tools–as substantially as how to indorse against attackers. A practicum demonstrates how to administer these ideas and mechanisms to a graphic company.

Coverage includes

* Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
* Operational issues, cost-benefit and venture analyses, jural and manlike factors
* Planning and implementing trenchant admittance control
* Defining security, confidentiality, and state policies
* Using writing and public-key systems, and recognizing their limits
* Understanding and using authentication: from passwords to biometrics
* Security organisation principles: least-privilege, fail-safe defaults, unstoppered design, frugalness of mechanism, and more
* Controlling aggregation line finished systems and networks
* Assuring section throughout the grouping lifecycle
* Malicious logic: Dardanian horses, viruses, rush facet and workable infectors, rabbits, bacteria, system bombs–and defenses against them
* Vulnerability analysis, onset studies, auditing, and intrusion spotting and prevention
* Applying section principles to networks, systems, users, and programs

Introduction to Computer Security is modified from Bishop’s broad and widely praised book, Computer Security: Art and Science. This shorter edition of the example impact omits such mathematical formalism, making it more reachable for professionals and students who hit a inferior conventional mathematical background, or for readers with a more applicatory than academic interest.

Introduction to Computer Security