Designing Secure Systems

Modern systems are an intertwined mesh of human process, physical security, and technology. Attackers are aware of this, commonly leveraging a weakness in one form of security to gain control over an otherwise protected operation. To expose these weaknesses, we need a single unified model that can be used to describe all aspects of the system on equal terms.

Designing Secure Systems takes a theory-based approach to concepts underlying all forms of systems – from padlocks, to phishing, to ent...