
Principles of Data Security
Ernst L. Leiss(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 2. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
238 pages
978-1-4684-4318-9 (ISBN)
Description
With the greatly increased use of electronic media for processing and storing data, data security became an important practical issue. This is especially true for the extensively shared and distributed systems which are more and more being accepted in commercial operations. Essen tially, the problem is that of protecting data, including all the impli cations which this has to the end user as well as the systems or database designer. However, usually the term data security refers to protection by technical, i.e., computer science specific, means; if one wants to in clude issues such as physical security, how to select the group of people who should have authority to perform certain operations, etc., the term computer security is more appropriate. The object of this book is to provide technical solutions to (facets of) the problem of achieving data security. The reader who hopes to find clever recipes which allow circumventing protection mechanisms will, however, be sadly disappointed. In fact, we deliberately kept the presentation of the material at a fairly general level. While the short term benefit of such an approach may be somewhat smaller, we feel that without a thorough understanding of the fundamental issues and problems in data security there will never be secure systems. True, peo ple probably always considered certain security aspects when designing a system. However, an integrated approach is absolutely imperative.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
238 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-4318-9 (9781468443189)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-4316-5
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Ernst L. Leiss
Principles of Data Security
Book
11/1982
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
€109.28
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Content
1. Data Security: Introduction and Motivation.- 2. Statistical Database Security.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Security with Characteristic-Specified Queries.- 2.3. Security in the Key-Specified Model.- 2.4. Conclusion.- 3. Authorization Mechanisms.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. The Undecidability of the Safety Problem for General Authorization Systems.- 3.3. Authorization Systems with Tractable Safety Problem.- 3.4. Overview of a Practical Implementation.- 4. Cryptosystems.- 4.1. Introduction and Motivation.- 4.2. Symmetric Cryptosystems.- 4.3. Public Key Cryptosystems.- 4.4. Authentication and Digital Signatures.- 4.5. Protecting Ownership of Proprietary Data and Software.- References.