Security in Computing : 6th Edition - Charles Pfleeger

Security in Computing

6th Edition

By: Charles Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Lizzie Coles-Kemp

Paperback | 25 July 2023 | Edition Number 6

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The Art of Computer and Information Security: From Apps and Networks to Cloud and Crypto

Security in Computing, Sixth Edition, is today's essential text for anyone teaching, learning, and practicing cybersecurity. It defines core principles underlying modern security policies, processes, and protection; illustrates them with up-to-date examples; and shows how to apply them in practice. Modular and flexibly organized, this book supports a wide array of courses, strengthens professionals' knowledge of foundational principles, and imparts a more expansive understanding of modern security.

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; post-quantum computing; and more. It contains many new diagrams, exercises, sidebars, and examples, and is suitable for use with two leading frameworks: the US NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) and the UK Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK).
  • 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

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About the Authors

Charles P. Pfleeger is an internationally known expert on computer and communications security. He spent 14 years as professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, before moving on to computer research and consulting company, Trusted Information Systems, where he was director of European operations and senior consultant. He was also director of research, member of the staff, and chief security officer at Cable and Wireless. He has chaired the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and was on the editorial board of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a widely known software engineering and computer security researcher. She served as president of Systems/Software and then as senior researcher with the Rand Corporation. As research director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, she oversaw large, high-impact computer security research projects for international government and industry clients. She has served as associate editor in chief of IEEE Software magazine, and as editor in chief of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.

Lizzie Coles-Kemp is a professor of information security at the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). Prior to joining RHUL in 2007, Lizzie work in security practice for 17 years and held several managerial and directorship roles. During this time, she worked on the design and implementation of software access control systems, taught network security to practitioners, worked as a lead assessor in security standards for a UK certification body, and was global security officer for the British Council (a UK NGO).

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