
Web Security and Commerce
O'Reilly (Publisher)
Published on 8. July 1997
Book
506 pages
978-1-56592-269-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Explaining what the real security risks of web commerce are, this text goes on to explain how you can minimize them. Designed for Web surfers and system administrators responsible for the security of a critical web server, this provides information on all there is to know. Entertaining as well as illuminating, it looks behind the headlines at the technologies, risks, and benefits of the web.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56592-269-3 (9781565922693)
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Simson Garfinkel | Gene Spafford
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Simson Garfinkel is a computer consultant, science writer, and columnist for both The Boston Globe and HotWired, Wired Magazine's online service. He is the author of PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (O'Reilly & Associates, 1994) and the coauthor of Practical UNIX & Internet Security (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996). Mr. Garfinkel writes frequently about science and technology, as well as their social impacts. This is his sixth book. Eugene H. Spafford is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is the founder and director of the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory at Purdue. Professor Spafford is an active researcher in the areas of software testing and debugging, applied security, and professional computing issues. He was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations. He is the coauthor of Practical UNIX & Internet Security (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996). He was the consulting editor for Computer Crime: A Crimefighters Handbook (O'Reilly & Associates, 1995), and has also coauthored a widely praised book on computer viruses. He supervised the development of the first COPS and Tripwire security audit software packages, and he has been a frequently invited speaker at computer ethics and computer security events around the world. He is on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and is active in many professional societies, including ACM, Usenix, IEEE (as a Senior Member), and the IEEE Computer Society.