Cyber Attacks
Protecting National Infrastructure, STUDENT EDITION
Published on 29. March 2012
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-12-391855-0 (ISBN)
Description
Cyber Attacks, Student Edition, offers a technical, architectural, and management approach to solving the problems of protecting national infrastructure. This approach includes controversial themes such as the deliberate use of deception to trap intruders. This volume thus serves as an attractive framework for a new national strategy for cyber security. A specific set of criteria requirements allows any organization, such as a government agency, to integrate the principles into their local environment.
In this edition, each principle is presented as a separate security strategy and illustrated with compelling examples. The book adds 50-75 pages of new material aimed specifically at enhancing the student experience and making it more attractive for instructors teaching courses such as cyber security, information security, digital security, national security, intelligence studies, technology and infrastructure protection. It now also features case studies illustrating actual implementation scenarios of the principles and requirements discussed in the text, along with a host of new pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, learning checklists, and a 2-color interior. Furthermore, a new and complete ancillary package includes test bank, lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, case study questions, and more.
This text is intended for security practitioners and military personnel as well as for students wishing to become security engineers, network operators, software designers, technology managers, application developers, etc.
In this edition, each principle is presented as a separate security strategy and illustrated with compelling examples. The book adds 50-75 pages of new material aimed specifically at enhancing the student experience and making it more attractive for instructors teaching courses such as cyber security, information security, digital security, national security, intelligence studies, technology and infrastructure protection. It now also features case studies illustrating actual implementation scenarios of the principles and requirements discussed in the text, along with a host of new pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, learning checklists, and a 2-color interior. Furthermore, a new and complete ancillary package includes test bank, lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, case study questions, and more.
This text is intended for security practitioners and military personnel as well as for students wishing to become security engineers, network operators, software designers, technology managers, application developers, etc.
Reviews / Votes
"Dr. Amoroso must be commended for his effort in trying to build a national strategy document...The material is worthy of being debated in public policy circles..." --Security Management, June 2013"The book puts forward a good set of high-level principles for protecting enterprise scale assets against cyber-attack, which provide the necessary formal, rigorous approach for anyone holding ultimate responsibility in this area. The treatment of these topics is conceptual rather than technical with minimal discussion of implementation, although this is understandable enough as there will be considerable variation between different enterprises and systems in practice...[T]his is an excellent introduction or high-level guide for anyone involved in the management of infrastructure security or learning the basic principles of enterprise information security." --BCS.org
"Cyber Attacks Protecting National Infrastructure is a very readable and engaging book on one of the most important topics the US is currently facing. While Amoroso lays out the technical issues, he also notes that the only way to remediate them is via a commitment to infrastructure protection; based on a top-down approach from management. If management is supportive of information security, and understands its significant, the security teams ability to secure the infrastructure will be inordinately easier. For those looking for a reference that provides both the breadth and depth on the topic, Cyber Attacks Protecting National Infrastructure is an invaluable resource written by one of the smartest minds in the industry" --RSA Conference's Security Reading Room
More details
Edition
Student edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Woburn
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
undergraduate and graduate students at 2- and 4-yr schools, students at for-profit and career schools. security practitioners, military personnel.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
867 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-391855-0 (9780123918550)
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Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
03/2012
Butterworth-Heinemann
€39.99
Available for download
Person
Edward Amoroso is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T, where he has worked in cyber security for the past twenty-five years. He has also held the adjunct professor position in the computer science department at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past twenty years. Edward has written four previous books on computer security, and his writings and commentary have appeared in major national newspapers, television shows, and books. He holds a BS degree in physics from Dickinson College, and the MS/PhD degrees in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of the Columbia Business School.
Content
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Deception
Chapter Three: Separation
Chapter Four: Diversity
Chapter Five: Commonality
Chapter Six: Depth
Chapter Seven: Discretion
Chapter Eight: Collection
Chapter Nine: Correlation
Chapter Ten: Awareness
Chapter Eleven: Response
Appendix A: Case Studies
Appendix B: National Requirements
Chapter Two: Deception
Chapter Three: Separation
Chapter Four: Diversity
Chapter Five: Commonality
Chapter Six: Depth
Chapter Seven: Discretion
Chapter Eight: Collection
Chapter Nine: Correlation
Chapter Ten: Awareness
Chapter Eleven: Response
Appendix A: Case Studies
Appendix B: National Requirements