Interscience Information Security Principles And Practice

Some security textbooks offer a large dollop of dry useless theory. Reading one of these books is about as exciting as reading a calculus textbook. Other security books offer nothing but a collection of apparently unrelated facts, giving the impression that security is not really a coherent subject at all. Then there are books that present the topic as ac ollection of high-level managerial platitudes. These books may have a place, but if your goal is to design and build secure systems, you’d better understand something about the underlying technology. Finally, some security books focus on the human factors in security. While it is certainly critical to understand the role that human nature plays in security, I would argue that a security engineer must have a solid understanding of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the technology before the human factors can be fullyappreciated.Information security is a huge topic, and unlike more established fields, it’s not clear what material should be included in a book like this, or how best to organize the selected material. I’ve chosen to organize this book around the following four major themes:
• Cryptography
• AccessControl
• Protocols
• Software

These themes are fairly elastic so that I can include what I consider to be the most significant material. For example, in my usage, access control includes the traditional topics of authentication and authorization, along with such non-traditional topics as firewalls and CAPTCHAs. The software theme is particularly flexible, including such diverse topics as secure software development, computer viruses, software reverse engineering, and operating systems.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introduction
Chapter 02 - Crypto Basics
Chapter 03 - Symmetric Key Crypto
Chapter 04 - Public Key Crypto
Chapter 05 - Hash Function And Other Topics
Chapter 06 - Advanced Cryptanalysis
Chapter 07 - Authentication
Chapter 08 - Authorization
Chapter 09 - Simple Authentication Protocols
Chapter 10 - Real-World Security Protocols
Chapter 11 - Software Flaws And Malware
Chapter 12 - Insecurity In Software
Chapter 13 - Operating Systems And Security

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