In this book Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Lizzie Coles-Kemp define core principles underlying modern security policies, processes, and protection; illustrates them with up-to-date examples; and shows how to apply them in practice. This extensively updated edition adds or expands coverage of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools; app and browser security; security by design; securing cloud, IoT, and embedded systems; privacy-enhancing technologies; protecting vulnerable individuals and groups; strengthening security culture; cryptocurrencies and blockchain; cyberwarfare; and post-quantum computing.

Author: Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Lizzie Coles-Kemp
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: August 2023
Pages: 1040
ISBN: 978-0137891214
Print: 0137891210
Kindle: B00S88TJV2
Audience: General
Level: Intermediate
Category: Security

Topics covered:

• Core security concepts: Assets, threats, vulnerabilities, controls, confidentiality, integrity, availability, attackers, and attack types
• The security practitioner's toolbox: Identification and authentication, access control, and cryptography
• Areas of practice: Securing programs, user–internet interaction, operating systems, networks, data, databases, and cloud computing
• Cross-cutting disciplines: Privacy, management, law, and ethics
• Using cryptography: Formal and mathematical underpinnings, and applications of cryptography
• Emerging topics and risks: AI and adaptive cybersecurity, blockchains and cryptocurrencies, cyberwarfare, and quantum computing

For more Book Watch just click.

Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some, but by no means all, of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed.

To have new titles included in Book Watch contact  BookWatch@i-programmer.info

Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.