Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World |
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| Title: | Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World |
| Author: | Bruce Schneier |
| Publisher: | Wiley [Website] |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 30 January, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0471453803 / 9780471453802 |
| List Price: | $17.95 |
| You Save: | $5.74 |
| Amazon Price: | $12.21 |
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Product Description
Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a network
Internationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more.
* Walks the reader through the real choices they have now for digital security and how to pick and choose the right one to meet their business needs
* Explains what cryptography can and can't do in achieving digital security
Amazon.com Review
Whom can you trust? Try Bruce Schneier, whose rare gift for common sense makes his book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World both enlightening and practical. He's worked in cryptography and electronic security for years, and has reached the depressing conclusion that even the loveliest code and toughest hardware still will yield to attackers who exploit human weaknesses in the users. The book is neatly divided into three parts, covering the turn-of-the-century landscape of systems and threats, the technologies used to protect and intercept data, and strategies for proper implementation of security systems. Moving away from blind faith in prevention, Schneier advocates swift detection and response to an attack, while maintaining firewalls and other gateways to keep out the amateurs. Newcomers to the world of Schneier will be surprised at how funny he can be, especially given a subject commonly perceived as quiet and dull. Whether he's analyzing the security issues of the rebels and the Death Star in Star Wars or poking fun at the giant software and e-commerce companies that consistently sacrifice security for sexier features, he's one of the few tech writers who can provoke laughter consistently. While moderately pessimistic on the future of systems vulnerability, he goes on to relieve the reader's tension by comparing our electronic world to the equally insecure paper world we've endured for centuries--a little smart-card fraud doesn't seem so bad after all. Despite his unfortunate (but brief) shill for his consulting company in the book's afterword, you can trust Schneier to dish the dirt in Secrets and Lies. --Rob Lightner
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Educational And Easy Read
26 June, 2009
This is a great book for those interested in security. The author does a great job at making the subject understandable and covers covers a great breadth of topics. A lot of the material covered is similar to a high level view of what's in CCISP books. The book's goal is to make you aware and to teach you how to think about security. Many times, companies will come up with a new product that they claim will take care of all your security problems for a stiff price. Understanding how to think about security will make you aware that there is no silver bullet. Instead, you need to follow a process to minimize the risk. This book is definitely worth reading.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Brilliant
26 August, 2009
I have read hundreds of books on INFOSEC related topics but this one takes the cake.
Schneier is a brilliant information security mind and his topics are as relavant to managment as they are to INFOSEC professionals.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Really Disappointing Read
31 December, 2009
I was expecting Schneier to have penned a more in-depth view of security in modern systems, but this book was a shallow imitation of a number of other security-related texts I have read. If you want a management-level overview then this book will be a useful read, but if you are looking for any depth or insight, look elsewhere. Other texts such as "Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems" give a better look at the field.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Great Book!
02 December, 2008
This is a great Information Security book.
I also sugges Ira Winkler's "Spies Among Us".
- Amazon Customer Review
• The Most Comprehensive Book On The Subject Of Digital Security
12 July, 2009
Its the most comprehensive and well-written book on the extensive subject of digital security. It carefully explains all the paradigms of security involved and then discusses the technologies and strategies employed to tackle them.
Its laced with all the real world examples of security flaws and practices. It does a great job in keeping the reader interested in this subject.
- Amazon Customer Review
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