Computer-Related Risks

Neumann, Peter G.:

ISBN 10: 020155805X / ISBN 13: 9780201558050

Published by Addison Wesley, 1995

About this Item

384 S. Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, Lesefalze am Rücken des Buches, innen alles in Ordnung; Good copy, light signs of previous use, cover/dust jacket shows some rubbing/wear, creases on the spine, interior in good condition. C240318am29 ISBN: 9780201558050 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 526.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computer-Related Risks
• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020155805X
• ISBN 13: 9780201558050
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Gut

About this title

Synopsis

This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, with widely ranging causes and effects. It considers problems attributable to hardware, software, people, and natural causes. Examples include disasters (such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Iranian Airbus shootdowns, the Exxon Valdez, and various transportation accidents); malicious hacker attacks; outages of telephone systems and computer networks; financial losses and many other strange happenstances (squirrels downing power grids, and April Fool's Day pranks).
Computer-Related Risks addresses problems involving reliability, safety, security, privacy, and human well-being. It includes analyses of why these cases happened and discussions of what might be done to avoid recurrences of similar events. It is readable by technologists as well as by people merely interested in the uses and limits of technology. It is must reading for anyone with even a remote involvement with computers and communications - which today means almost everyone.

About the Author

About Peter Neumann

Peter G. Neumann (Principal Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International) runs the popular and provocative on-line Internet newsgroup, The Risks Forum, which he started in 1985. He also writes the widely read "Inside Risks" column in the Communications of the ACM. Running RISKS is a sideline to his research and development interests, which include computer hardware and software, systems, networks, and communications, as well as security, reliability, and safety--and how to attain them. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE. He is often the first person called when computer disasters occur.

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