Schneier on Security

by Bruce Schneier

Overview

Presenting invaluable advice from the world's most famous computer security expert, this intensely readable collection features some of the most insightful and informative coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of computer security and the price people pay -- figuratively and literally -- when security fails. Discussing the issues surrounding things such as airplanes, passports, voting machines, ID cards, cameras, passwords, Internet banking, sporting events, computers, and castles, this book is a must-read for anyone who values security at any level -- business, technical, or personal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470505625
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/16/2009
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Bruce Schneier has been called the security industry's equivalent of a rock star. An internationally renowned security technologist, he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. The bestselling author of eight books, including Applied Cryptography and Secrets and Lies, both published by Wiley, and Beyond Fear, published by Springer-Verlag, he has written articles and commentary that have appeared in numerous prominent publications and has testified before Congress on security issues. Schneier maintains the extremely popular "Schneier on Security" blog (www.schneier.com/blog).

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Table of Contents

1. Terrorism and Security.

2. National Security Policy.

3. Airline Travel.

4. Privacy and Surveillance.

5. ID Cards and Security.

6. Election Security.

7. Security and Disasters.

8. Economics of Security.

9. Business of Security.

10. Cybercrime and Cyberwar.

11. Computer and Information Security.

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