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Bruce Schneier (Author)
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Publication Date: Jan 30 2004
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

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At the moment, it seems that hardly a day passes without fresh news of some glaring Internet security breach; online banks, of all things, seem to be particularly vulnerable at the moment. All of which will come as no great surprise to network security cum cryptography guru, Bruce Schnier. His latest book, Secrets and Lies, paints a very gloomy overview of the true state of network security. Schnier, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, has some harsh words to say about the state of network security, though, to be fair, his criticisms are directed far and wide; not one scapegoat, (not even Microsoft) is singled out for special attention. Depressingly, the words "fundamentally flawed" crop up time and time again in this absorbing book.

Secrets and Lies is a thorough backgrounder in all aspects of network security, an extremely wide remit that stretches from passwords to encryption, passing through authentication and attack trees along the way. The book is divided in to three broad categories, The Landscape, which covers attacks, adversaries and the need for security; Technologies, which discusses cryptography, authentication, network security, secure hardware and security tricks; and concludes with Strategies, which looks at vulnerabilities, risk assessment, security policies and the future of security. Mercifully there's a dim light at the end of this tunnel and Schnier ultimately remains upbeat about maintaining computer security and details a way forward in his conclusion.

Although working in a necessarily techie environment, Schnier's book is surprisingly jargon-free and easy to understand, even if you're not au fait with the inner workings of TCP/IP--it's common-sense, practical style makes a potentially dense and arcane subject accessible by just about anybody. It's also bang up to date, which makes for a pleasant change. Secrets and Lies is never less than thought-provoking and should be essential reading for every network administrator in the land. Be afraid, be very afraid! --Roger Gann --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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“…The security technologies available are described in a user-friendly way without going into depth...” (Computer Bulletin, January 2005)

“…peppered with lively anecdotes and aphorisms, making it a really accessible read...” (The ISSG Magazine, Autumn, 2004)

“…fascinating read…peppered with lively anecdotes…” (The ISSG Magazine, October 2004)

"...make yourself better informed. Read this book." (CVu, The Journal of the ACCU, Vol 16(3), June 2004)

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1.0 out of 5 stars To whoom was it written? Mar 25 2002
By Dr. Toth Mihaly
Format:Hardcover
Some references said that this book a business issue, not a technical one. The second half of this statement is definitely correct. I'm an engineer teachig in a Community College and I looked for some book to brush up the interest of my students. Not a technical book. Unluckily enough I've selected this one, but I was disappointed very much.
Words and words. So much text and hardly any fact. If any that's old enough being known publicly.
I'm sure that even business people have not enough time to read through so much text for so little relevant information to mine out.
So as for the first half of the statement cited, I doubt that businessman can gain anything of this book except the fear of using such a public facility as Internet is.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars This is no "Applied Cryptography". Jan 19 2001
By W. R. Day
Format:Hardcover
Devoid of useful information. Most of the book is devoted to a pathetic angst-ridden grappling with the idea that there is no perfect security. Well, duh. Get over it Bruce. Tell us something we don't know. The only points of light are the antedotes and the idea that risk can be a business opportunity, by managing it well.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Nov 5 2000
By Aaron
Format:Hardcover
This is a sales book! The book outlines many of the security problems today, but offers only one solution: to hire the author's company.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Piece of Work!!!!
Bruce Schneier did an excellent job with this book. He has taken a subject that can be highly technical and presented it in a way that can be understood and appreciated by both... Read more
Published on Dec 13 2007 by Horace McPherson
5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to digital security
This book is not very technical but it is very interesting to read and is very good to convey the basic principles of security. Read more
Published on July 3 2007 by Olivier Langlois
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, really like it
I highly recommend this book, for everyone interested in comp security. This is book is very comprehensive, and covers every possible aspect. Read more
Published on May 11 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars Great info, even if self-serving
Schneier's job is security. How do you get more customers? By scaring them. He does plenty of this in this book, and even admits at the end that part of his agenda is to drum up... Read more
Published on April 23 2004 by "frant1c"
1.0 out of 5 stars Same old song and dance: gimme your $$$
If Bruce Schneier has acquired a habit, it is the ability to take the same old material and rehash it into different books, year after year. Read more
Published on Nov 13 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for anyone interested in Security
I first tried reading the Authors other book, Applied Cryptography, but that was way too technical for my needs.
Then along comes this book, at just the right level. Read more
Published on Oct 30 2003 by Keith Appleyard
1.0 out of 5 stars Same old story, different cover
You would think that this long after Sept. 11 that the information security community and it's wanna-be futurists and strategic thinkers (like Schnier) would at least be able to... Read more
Published on Sep 10 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a really good book to give a manager.
This is a really good book to give a manager.

It tells stories of what happens when you don't do security right without getting too technical. Read more

Published on Sep 2 2003 by Eric Kent
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Overall the book was a great read. I wanted to get a high overview of computer security and the different aspects of it and this book delivered. Read more
Published on July 28 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars A new Age in Information Security
It is nice to see a new era of Information Security books. I am happy to see book like "Secrets and Lies" which shows security beyond the computer and other books like "Inside the... Read more
Published on Mar 28 2003 by Avram Andela
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