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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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“…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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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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To whoom was it written?,
By Dr. Toth Mihaly (Szekesfehervar Hungary) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (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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This is no "Applied Cryptography".,
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This review is from: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (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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Disappointing,
By Aaron (Berlin, Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (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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