Ebook: Guide to Computer Network Security

With the growth of cloud computing, social networks, and ever more advanced mobile devices, information security and assurance has become more important than ever before.

This comprehensive and authoritative Guide to Computer Network Security exposes the various security risks and vulnerabilities of computer networks and networked devices, offering advice on developing improved algorithms and best practices for enhancing system security. Fully revised and updated, this much-anticipated new edition embraces a broader view of computer networks that encompasses new agile mobile systems and social networks.

Topics and features:

• Provides supporting material for lecturers and students at an associated website, including an instructor’s manual, slides, solutions, and laboratory materials
• Includes both quickly-workable questions and more thought-provoking advanced exercises at the end of each chapter
• Devotes an entire chapter to laboratory exercises, offering both weekly and semester-long assignments, and hard open research projects
• Surveys known security threats, and discusses flaws and vulnerabilities in computer network infrastructures and protocols
• Reviews existing best practices, proposes practical and efficient solutions to security issues, and encourages readers to investigate alternative possible approaches
• Explores the role of legislation, regulation, and law enforcement in maintaining computer and computer network security
• Examines the impact of developments in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile systems, which have extended the boundaries of the traditional computer network

This unique text/reference is an essential instructional and research tool for undergraduates in computer science and engineering. It is also a valuable reference for practitioners involved in computer networks and data security.

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With the growth of cloud computing, social networks, and ever more advanced mobile devices, information security and assurance has become more important than ever before.

This comprehensive and authoritative Guide to Computer Network Security exposes the various security risks and vulnerabilities of computer networks and networked devices, offering advice on developing improved algorithms and best practices for enhancing system security. Fully revised and updated, this much-anticipated new edition embraces a broader view of computer networks that encompasses new agile mobile systems and social networks.

Topics and features:

• Provides supporting material for lecturers and students at an associated website, including an instructor’s manual, slides, solutions, and laboratory materials
• Includes both quickly-workable questions and more thought-provoking advanced exercises at the end of each chapter
• Devotes an entire chapter to laboratory exercises, offering both weekly and semester-long assignments, and hard open research projects
• Surveys known security threats, and discusses flaws and vulnerabilities in computer network infrastructures and protocols
• Reviews existing best practices, proposes practical and efficient solutions to security issues, and encourages readers to investigate alternative possible approaches
• Explores the role of legislation, regulation, and law enforcement in maintaining computer and computer network security
• Examines the impact of developments in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile systems, which have extended the boundaries of the traditional computer network

This unique text/reference is an essential instructional and research tool for undergraduates in computer science and engineering. It is also a valuable reference for practitioners involved in computer networks and data security.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Computer Network Fundamentals....Pages 3-41
Understanding Computer Network Security....Pages 43-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Security Threats to Computer Networks....Pages 63-88
Computer Network Vulnerabilities....Pages 89-105
Cyber Crimes and Hackers....Pages 107-132
Hostile Scripts....Pages 133-143
Security Assessment, Analysis, and Assurance....Pages 145-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Disaster Management....Pages 171-181
Access Control and Authorization....Pages 183-202
Authentication....Pages 203-221
Cryptography....Pages 223-245
Firewalls....Pages 247-269
System Intrusion Detection and Prevention....Pages 271-295
Computer and Network Forensics....Pages 297-321
Virus and Content Filtering....Pages 323-341
Standardization and Security Criteria: Security Evaluation of Computer Products....Pages 343-355
Computer Network Security Protocols....Pages 357-386
Security in Wireless Networks....Pages 387-411
Security in Sensor Networks....Pages 413-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Mobile Communication Systems and Related Security Issues....Pages 431-446
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Virtualization Infrastructure and Related Security Issues....Pages 447-464
Cloud Computing and Related Security Issues....Pages 465-489
Other Efforts to Secure Information and Computer Networks....Pages 491-499
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
Projects....Pages 503-513
Back Matter....Pages 515-521

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With the growth of cloud computing, social networks, and ever more advanced mobile devices, information security and assurance has become more important than ever before.

This comprehensive and authoritative Guide to Computer Network Security exposes the various security risks and vulnerabilities of computer networks and networked devices, offering advice on developing improved algorithms and best practices for enhancing system security. Fully revised and updated, this much-anticipated new edition embraces a broader view of computer networks that encompasses new agile mobile systems and social networks.

Topics and features:

• Provides supporting material for lecturers and students at an associated website, including an instructor’s manual, slides, solutions, and laboratory materials
• Includes both quickly-workable questions and more thought-provoking advanced exercises at the end of each chapter
• Devotes an entire chapter to laboratory exercises, offering both weekly and semester-long assignments, and hard open research projects
• Surveys known security threats, and discusses flaws and vulnerabilities in computer network infrastructures and protocols
• Reviews existing best practices, proposes practical and efficient solutions to security issues, and encourages readers to investigate alternative possible approaches
• Explores the role of legislation, regulation, and law enforcement in maintaining computer and computer network security
• Examines the impact of developments in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile systems, which have extended the boundaries of the traditional computer network

This unique text/reference is an essential instructional and research tool for undergraduates in computer science and engineering. It is also a valuable reference for practitioners involved in computer networks and data security.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Computer Network Fundamentals....Pages 3-41
Understanding Computer Network Security....Pages 43-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Security Threats to Computer Networks....Pages 63-88
Computer Network Vulnerabilities....Pages 89-105
Cyber Crimes and Hackers....Pages 107-132
Hostile Scripts....Pages 133-143
Security Assessment, Analysis, and Assurance....Pages 145-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Disaster Management....Pages 171-181
Access Control and Authorization....Pages 183-202
Authentication....Pages 203-221
Cryptography....Pages 223-245
Firewalls....Pages 247-269
System Intrusion Detection and Prevention....Pages 271-295
Computer and Network Forensics....Pages 297-321
Virus and Content Filtering....Pages 323-341
Standardization and Security Criteria: Security Evaluation of Computer Products....Pages 343-355
Computer Network Security Protocols....Pages 357-386
Security in Wireless Networks....Pages 387-411
Security in Sensor Networks....Pages 413-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Mobile Communication Systems and Related Security Issues....Pages 431-446
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Virtualization Infrastructure and Related Security Issues....Pages 447-464
Cloud Computing and Related Security Issues....Pages 465-489
Other Efforts to Secure Information and Computer Networks....Pages 491-499
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
Projects....Pages 503-513
Back Matter....Pages 515-521
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