Dallas Public Library

Beautiful security, edited by Andy Oram and John Viega

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Beautiful security

bibliography

150370629

edited by Andy Oram and John Viega

Theory in practice

Leaders in the field of security describe bold and extraordinary projects in securing computer systems. This book is a diverse and thought-provoking anthology, like Beautiful Code, that shows the state of a major field through stories and insightful analyses. The authors describe how they arrived at unusual solutions to problems such as writing secure code, designing applications securely, and dealing with modern challenges such as wireless security and Internet challenges. This book will make security a cool topic and get people talking

Psychological security traps / Peiter "Mudge" Zatko -- Wireless networking : fertile ground for social engineering / Jim Stickley -- Beautiful security metrics / Elizabeth A. Nichols -- The underground economy of security breaches / Chenxi Wang -- Beautiful trade : rethinking E-commerce security / Ed Bellis -- Securing online advertising : rustlers and sheriffs in the new wild west / Benjamin Edelman -- The evolution of PGP's Web of Trust / Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas -- Open source honeyclient : proactive detection of client-side exploits / Kathy Wang -- Tomorrow's security cogs and levers / Mark Curphey -- Security by design / John McManus -- Forcing firms to focus : is secure software in your future? / Jim Routh -- Oh no, here come the infosecurity lawyers! / Randy V. Sabett -- Beautiful log handling / Anton Chuvakin -- Incident detection : finding the other 68% / Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy -- Doing real work without real data / Peter Wayner -- Casting spells : PC security theater / Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco

Leading security experts explain how they think