Computer Security: Art and Science - Hardcover

Bishop, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321712331 ISBN 13: 9780321712332

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2018

Synopsis

The Comprehensive Guide to Computer Security, Extensively Revised with Newer Technologies, Methods, Ideas, and Examples

 

In this updated guide, University of California at Davis Computer Security Laboratory co-director Matt Bishop offers clear, rigorous, and thorough coverage of modern computer security. Reflecting dramatic growth in the quantity, complexity, and consequences of security incidents, Computer Security, Second Edition, links core principles with technologies, methodologies, and ideas that have emerged since the first edition’s publication.

 

Writing for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and IT professionals, Bishop covers foundational issues, policies, cryptography, systems design, assurance, and much more. He thoroughly addresses malware, vulnerability analysis, auditing, intrusion detection, and best-practice responses to attacks. In addition to new examples throughout, Bishop presents entirely new chapters on availability policy models and attack analysis.

• Understand computer security goals, problems, and challenges, and the deep links between theory and practice
• Learn how computer scientists seek to prove whether systems are secure
• Define security policies for confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more
• Analyze policies to reflect core questions of trust, and use them to constrain operations and change
• Implement cryptography as one component of a wider computer and network security strategy
• Use system-oriented techniques to establish effective security mechanisms, defining who can act and what they can do
• Set appropriate security goals for a system or product, and ascertain how well it meets them
• Recognize program flaws and malicious logic, and detect attackers seeking to exploit them

This is both a comprehensive text, explaining the most fundamental and pervasive aspects of the field, and a detailed reference. It will help you align security concepts with realistic policies, successfully implement your policies, and thoughtfully manage the trade-offs that inevitably arise.

 

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About this title

From the Back Cover

"This is an excellent text that should be read by every computer security professional and student."

—Dick Kemmerer, University of California, Santa Barbara.

"This is the most complete book on information security theory, technology, and practice that I have encountered anywhere!"

—Marvin Schaefer, Former Chief Scientist, National Computer Security Center, NSA

This highly anticipated book fully introduces the theory and practice of computer security. It is both a comprehensive text, explaining the most fundamental and pervasive aspects of the field, and a detailed reference filled with valuable information for even the most seasoned practitioner. In this one extraordinary volume the author incorporates concepts from computer systems, networks, human factors, and cryptography. In doing so, he effectively demonstrates that computer security is an art as well as a science.

Computer Security: Art and Science includes detailed discussions on:

The nature and challenges of computer security

The relationship between policy and security

The role and application of cryptography

The mechanisms used to implement policies

Methodologies and technologies for assurance

Vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection

Computer Security discusses different policy models, and presents mechanisms that can be used to enforce these policies. It concludes with examples that show how to apply the principles discussed in earlier sections, beginning with networks and moving on to systems, users, and programs.

This important work is essential for anyone who needs to understand, implement, or maintain a secure network or computer system.

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About the Author

Matt Bishop is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His main research interest is the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems, including modeling them, building tools to detect vulnerabilities, and ameliorating or eliminating them. He works in the areas of network security, including the study of denial of service attacks and defenses, policy modeling, software assurance testing, resilience, and formal modeling of access control. He was co-chair of the Joint Task Force that developed the Cybersecurity Curricula 2017: Curriculum Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity, released in December 2017. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1984.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0321712331
• ISBN 13: 9780321712332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1440