Web Security & Commerce : Risks, Technologies and Strategies

Garfinkel, Simson with Spafford, Gene

ISBN 10: 1565922697 / ISBN 13: 9781565922693

Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastapol, 1997

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No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 483pp. An early study on computer and internet security and how you can enforce it. Scarce in the UK. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 7 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Web Security & Commerce : Risks, Technologies and Strategies
• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastapol
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565922697
• ISBN 13: 9781565922693
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Computers / Games

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Synopsis

Explaining what the real security risks of web commerce are, this text goes on to explain how you can minimize them. Designed for Web surfers and system administrators responsible for the security of a critical web server, this provides information on all there is to know. Entertaining as well as illuminating, it looks behind the headlines at the technologies, risks, and benefits of the web.

About the Author

Simson Garfinkel is a computer consultant, science writer, and columnist for both The Boston Globe and HotWired, Wired Magazine's online service. He is the author of PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (O'Reilly & Associates, 1994) and the coauthor of Practical UNIX & Internet Security (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996). Mr. Garfinkel writes frequently about science and technology, as well as their social impacts. This is his sixth book. Eugene H. Spafford is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is the founder and director of the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory at Purdue. Professor Spafford is an active researcher in the areas of software testing and debugging, applied security, and professional computing issues. He was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations. He is the coauthor of Practical UNIX & Internet Security (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996). He was the consulting editor for Computer Crime: A Crimefighters Handbook (O'Reilly & Associates, 1995), and has also coauthored a widely praised book on computer viruses. He supervised the development of the first COPS and Tripwire security audit software packages, and he has been a frequently invited speaker at computer ethics and computer security events around the world. He is on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and is active in many professional societies, including ACM, Usenix, IEEE (as a Senior Member), and the IEEE Computer Society.