Computer Architecture and Security: Fundamentals of Designing Secure Computer Systems (Information Security)

This book provides the fundamentals of computer architecture for security. It covers a wide range of computer hardware, system software and data concepts from a security perspective. It is essential for computer science and security professionals to understand both hardware and software security solutions to survive in the workplace.

• Examination of memory, CPU architecture and system implementation
• Discussion of computer buses and a dual-port bus interface
• Examples cover a board spectrum of hardware and software systems
• Design and implementation of a patent-pending secure computer system
• Includes the latest patent-pending technologies in architecture security
• Placement of computers in a security fulfilled network environment
• Co-authored by the inventor of the modern Computed Tomography (CT) scanner
• Provides website for lecture notes, security tools and latest updates

Shuangbao (Paul) Wang, George Mason University, USA

Robert S. Ledley, Georgetown University, USA