Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies, and Thieves - Softcover

Nichols, Randall; Ryan, Daniel; Ryan, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072122854 ISBN 13: 9780072122855

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

Learn to stop digital espionage-before it happens!

Manage your way to security in an increasingly interconnected world. Network data has become increasingly valuable in today's public and private sectors, as has become painfully clear to those in Fortune 500 companies and to those in top branches of government who store information digitally. But exactly how safe is the informaton that is accessible from a network?

According to the expert authors of Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies & Thieves and RSA Security, the most trusted name in e-security, NO data is safe. In fact, digital espionage, theft and destruction occur every day, and most attacks go undetected until it is too late.

This groundbreaking new work discusses the growing vulnerabilities due to interconnectivity and the importance of protecting digital information. It offers detailed explanations of how and why attacks in progress, and quickly recover business operations. This is the first title from RSA Press, the new publishing group from RSA Security. RSA Security helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its two-factor authentication, encryption and public key management systems.

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Review:

Defending Your Digital Assets is a comprehensive manual dealing with data security in the context of our increasingly computerised society. More than a good read, it is a programme of defensive measures and good practice when dealing with your information and computers. It features excellent, clinical and frankly chilling portraits of the crimes and criminals that constantly endanger the security of our information, and provides insightful little chapters (and a very good appendix) discussing technologies that have developed during the decades-long war waged against digital criminals and info-terrorists.

The approach is practical rather than alarmist, with numerous case studies included. While the authors clearly delineate the vulnerabilities of the systems that serve us, and the inevitability of attacks by the new criminals, they go much further. The book outlines defensive steps to be considered by each of us, from risk assessment through to legislation, pausing along the way to evaluate and elucidate both hardware and software technologies that have been employed in the battle.

The reading level varies significantly through the book, and the non-technician may well find some sections too involved. But there is plenty of meat everywhere, and even those who have to skip some portions are likely to come away with a good deal of technical knowledge as a bonus. One practical section helps readers create a tutorial on security policy awareness. The index is a pleasant surprise--a work of near perfection. Along with the appendices (which among other delicacies have capsule histories of various security technologies) it makes this a useful reference book as well as a level-headed guide through a problem zone.--Wilf Hey

About the Author:

Randall K. Nichols is President of COMSEC Solutions, LLC, a computer security countermeasures firm. He recently served as Technology Director of Crytography and Biometrics for the International Computer Security Association (ICSA). Nichols is considered an expert on cryptanalysis, INFOSEC countermeasures and classical cryptography.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072122854
• ISBN 13: 9780072122855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704