Joseph Migga Kizza

Guide to Computer Network Security

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fully updated new edition explores the security issues, vulnerabilities and dangers encountered by the users of modern computing and communication devices, highlighting the need to develop improved algorithms, protocols, and best practices to enhance the security of public, private and enterprise systems alike.
Features: introduces the fundamentals of traditional computer networks and the security threats they face; discusses the security challenges introduced by virtualization software, cloud computing and mobile systems; examines the security quagmire presented by the home computing environment; raises important legislative, legal, social, technical and ethical security issues, including the tension between the needs of individual privacy and collective security; provides both quickly workable and more thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter, with one chapter devoted entirely to lab exercises; supplies additional support material for instructors at an associated website.

Produktdetails

• Computer Communications and Networks
• Verlag: Springer / Springer, Berlin / Springer, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4471-6653-5
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 545
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781447166535
• ISBN-10: 1447166531
• Artikelnr.: 41858626

Autorenporträt

Dr. Joseph Migga Kizza is Head and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and past Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA. Among his other publications is the successful Springer textbook Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction to Computer Network Security.- Computer Network Fundamentals.- Computer Network Security Fundamentals.- Part II: Security Issues and Challenges in the Traditional Computer Network.- Security Motives and Threats to Computer Networks.- Introduction to Computer Network Vulnerabilities.- Cyber Crimes and Hackers.- Scripting and Security in Computer Networks and Web Browsers.- Security Assessment, Analysis, and Assurance.- Part III: Dealing with Computer Network Security Challenges.- Disaster Management.- Access Control and Authorization.- Authentication.- Cryptography.- Firewalls.- System Intrusion Detection and Prevention.- Computer and Network Forensics.- Virus and Content Filtering.- Standardization and Security Criteria: Security Evaluation of Computer Products.- Computer Network Security Protocols.- Security in Wireless Networks and Devices.- Security in Sensor Networks.- Other Efforts to Secure Data in Computer Networks.- Part IV: Elastic Extension Beyond the Traditional Computer Network: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobile Systems.- Cloud Computing and Related Security Issues.- Virtualization Security.- Mobile Systems and Corresponding Intractable Security Issues.- Part V: Securing the Last Frontiers - The Home Front.- Conquering the Last Frontier in the Digital Invasion: The Home Front.- Part VI: Hands-on Projects.- Projects.

Rezensionen

"The book offers relevant definitions in the field of security and computer networks ... . The book is definitively addressed to the general nonspecialist public; practitioners may be able to consult it for some definitions. ... It is, in my view, important to emphasize that all of the topics are covered in a merely definitional, descriptive way." (Carla Sánchez Aguilar, Computing Reviews, April, 2016)

"The book contains exercises and advanced exercises, along with relevant references, and comes with support materials for instructors ... making it useful for teaching courses on computer security. ... The exercises and projects are helpful for teaching. ... I believe the third edition will continue to receive praise from students, researchers, and practitioners. I strongly recommend it." (S. V. Nagaraj, Computing Reviews, August, 2015)

From the reviews:

"This book focuses on educating readers on the security problems that are likely to be encountered. ... Overall, this is a well-written text that will provide readers with a solid foundation in information security. ... it would also be appropriate as an introductory text for practitioners entering the field and for providing background and business context of security-related business issues for nontechnical managers." (W. T. Neumann, ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

"This excellent book by Joseph Migga Kizza is very welcome. The author steers ... to give a thorough, complete and very readable guide to the subject. ... the book is well structured and presented - offering the basis of a strong balanced course. ... stands by itself as a valuable guide. ... Who is it for? A very good core text for an undergraduate course in network security, and valuable for any IT professional needing to refresh his or her understanding in this area ... ." (Times Higher Education, Issue viii, December, 2009)