Beautiful security /
Cover subtitle : Leading security experts explain how they think
edited by Andy Oram and John Viega
- First edition.
- xv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Theory in practice .
Psychological security traps / Wireless networking : fertile ground for social engineering / Beautiful security metrics / The underground economy of security breaches / Beautiful trade : rethinking E-commerce security / Securing online advertising : rustlers and sheriffs in the new wild west / The evolution of PGP's Web of Trust / Open source honeyclient : proactive detection of client-side exploits / Tomorrow's security cogs and levers / Security by design / Forcing firms to focus : is secure software in your future? / Oh no, here come the infosecurity lawyers! / Beautiful log handling / Incident detection : finding the other 68% / Doing real work without real data / Casting spells : PC security theater / Peiter "Mudge" Zatko -- Jim Stickley -- Elizabeth A. Nichols -- Chenxi Wang -- Ed Bellis -- Benjamin Edelman -- Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas -- Kathy Wang -- Mark Curphey -- John McManus -- Jim Routh -- Randy V. Sabett -- Anton Chuvakin -- Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy -- Peter Wayner -- Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco
Leaders in the field of security describe bold and extraordinary projects in securing computer systems. This book is a diverse and though-provoking anthology, like Beautiful Code, that shows the state of a major field through stories and insightful analyses. The authors describe how they arrived at unusual solutions to problems such as writing secure code, designing applications securely, and dealing with modern challenges such as wireless security and Internet challenges. This book will make security a cool topic and get people talking