Mark Stamp, "Information Security - Principles and Practice" John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ISBN: 0-471-73848-4 | 390 Pages | PDF | 4.3 MB
I hate black boxes. One of my goals in writing this book was to illuminate some of those black boxes that are so popular in information security books today. On the other hand, I don’t want to bore readers to death with trivial details (if that’s what you want, go read some RFCs). As a result, I sometimes ignore details that I deem irrelevant to the topic at hand. You can judge whether I’ve struck the proper balance between these two competing goals. Another goal of mine was to present the topic in a lively and interesting way. If any computing subject should be exciting and fun, it’s information security. Security is happening now, it’s in the news; it’s clearly alive and kicking. Some security textbooks offer a large dollop of dry useless theory. Reading one of these books is about as exciting as reading a calculus textbook. Other security books offer nothing but a collection of apparently unrelated facts, giving the impression that security is not really a coherent subject at all. Then there are books that present the topic as a collection of high-level managerial platitudes. These books may have a place, but if your goal is to design and build secure systems, you’d better understand something about the underlying technology. Finally, some security books focus on the human factors in security. While it is certainly critical to understand the role that human nature plays in security, I would argue that a security engineer must have a solid understanding of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the technology before the human factors can be fully appreciated.
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