Sat, 02 Sep 2006
Computer Security
R. Lehtinen, D. Russell, G. Gangemi,
Computer Security Basics 2nd Edition, O'Reilly
This is a good roundup of things to be aware of and things to
do to counter the malworlds. As the title says, it does the basics
and you you don't get treated to chapters on buffer overflows and
such. What you do get is a series of explanations and possible
protections.
It starts by looking at the field of computer security in
general and then goes through such as access control, viruses,
security policy, web attacks, encryption, biometrics, and
network security.
Altogether, the depth is good enough to be a starting point
for systems administrators and an endpoint for most users.
Unfortunately we all need to know a bit about security these days.
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