Guide to Computer Network Security (Computer Communications and Networks)

Joseph Migga Kizza

ISBN 10: 1447166531 / ISBN 13: 9781447166535

Published by Springer, 2015

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.2. Seller Inventory # G1447166531I5N00

Synopsis:

This fully updated new edition explores the security issues, vulnerabilities and dangers encountered by the users of modern computing and communication devices, highlighting the need to develop improved algorithms, protocols, and best practices to enhance the security of public, private and enterprise systems alike. 

Features: introduces the fundamentals of traditional computer networks and the security threats they face; discusses the security challenges introduced by virtualization software, cloud computing and mobile systems; examines the security quagmire presented by the home computing environment; raises important legislative, legal, social, technical and ethical security issues, including the tension between the needs of individual privacy and collective security; provides both quickly workable and more thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter, with one chapter devoted entirely to lab exercises; supplies additional support material for instructors at an associated website.

About the Author: Dr. Joseph Migga Kizza is Head and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and past Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA. Among his other publications is the successful Springer textbook Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Guide to Computer Network Security (Computer...
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 3rd Edition