Beautiful Security

Description

Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.

Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include:

* The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on their prey
* How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help or hurt our online security
* How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security to a higher level
* The real, little-publicized history of PGP

 This book includes contributions from:

* Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
* Jim Stickley
* Elizabeth Nichols
* Chenxi Wang
* Ed Bellis
* Ben Edelman
* Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas
* Kathy Wang
* Mark Curphey
* John McManus
* James Routh
* Randy V. Sabett
* Anton Chuvakin
* Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy
* Peter Wayner
* Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco

 All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

CONTENTS:

PrefaceChapter 1: Psychological Security TrapsChapter 2: Wireless Networking: Fertile Ground for Social EngineeringChapter 3: Beautiful Security MetricsChapter 4: The Underground Economy of Security BreachesChapter 5: Beautiful Trade: Rethinking E-Commerce SecurityChapter 6: Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild WestChapter 7: The Evolution of PGP’s Web of TrustChapter 8: Open Source Honeyclient: Proactive Detection of Client-Side ExploitsChapter 9: Tomorrow’s Security Cogs and LeversChapter 10: Security by DesignChapter 11: Forcing Firms to Focus: Is Secure Software in Your Future?Chapter 12: Oh No, Here Come the Infosecurity Lawyers!Chapter 13: Beautiful Log HandlingChapter 14: Incident Detection: Finding the Other 68%Chapter 15: Doing Real Work Without Real DataChapter 16: Casting Spells: PC Security TheaterContributorsColophon