This is a brand new edition of the best-selling computer security book. Written for self-study and course use, this book will suit a variety of introductory and more advanced security programmes for students of computer science, engineering and related disciplines. Technical and project managers will also find that the broad coverage offers a great starting point for discovering underlying issues and provides a means of orientation in a world populated by a bewildering array of competing security systems. · introduction · foundations of computer security · identification & authentication · access control · reference monitors · unix security · windows 2000 security · bell-lapadula model · security models · security evaluation · cryptography · authentication in distributed systems · network security · software security · new access control paradigms · mobility · database security
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