Computers at Risk. Safe Computing in the Information Age

SYSTEM SECURITY STUDY COMMITTEE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD (ed)

ISBN 10: 0309043883 / ISBN 13: 9780309043885

Published by National Academy Press, Washington, 1991

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xv + 303 p.

Seller Inventory # 013078

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computers at Risk. Safe Computing in the Information Age
• Publisher: National Academy Press, Washington
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309043883
• ISBN 13: 9780309043885
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • Informatik / Computer Science

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Synopsis

Computers at Risk presents a comprehensive agenda for developing nationwide policies and practices for computer security. Specific recommendations are provided for industry and for government agencies engaged in computer security activities.

The volume also outlines problems and opportunities in computer security research, recommends ways to improve the research infrastructure, and suggests topics for investigators.

The book explores the diversity of the field, the need to engineer countermeasures based on speculation of what experts think computer attackers may do next, why the technology community has failed to respond to the need for enhanced security systems, how innovators could be encouraged to bring more options to the marketplace, and balancing the importance of security against the right of privacy.

About the Author

System Security Study Committee, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council