Security in Computing

Security in Computing, Third Edition is a sweeping revision of the field's classic guide to computer security. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest Internet-based threats, it shows how to control failures of confidentiality, integrity, and availability in applications, databases, operating systems, and networks alike. It offers exceptionally clear and accessible coverage of cryptography and other technical issues; security administration; law, privacy, and ethics. New coverage includes wireless security, intrusion detection, quantum cryptography, biometrics, DRM, AES, honeypots, online privacy, and much more.

CHARLES P. PFLEEGER is a Master Security Architect for Exodus, a Cable and Wireless service, the world's premier web hosting and Internet solutions provider. He regularly advises clients on secure design and implementation of network applications and architectures.

SHARI LAWRENCE PFLEEGER, senior researcher for RAND Corporation, is author of eight books on software engineering, measurement, and quality, including Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, Second Edition (Prentice Hall PTR). She was named by The Journal of Systems and Software as one of the world's top software engineering researchers.

Foreword by Willis H. Ware.