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Author Basin, David.

Title Applied information security : a hands-on approach / David Basin, Patrick Schaller, Michael Schläpfer
Published Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)
Contents Chap. 1, Security Principles -- Chap. 2, The Virtual Environment -- Chap. 3, Network Services -- Chap. 4, Authentication and Access Control -- Chap. 5, Logging and Log Analysis -- Chap. 6, Web Application Security -- Chap. 7, Certificates and Public-Key Cryptography -- Chap. 8, Risk Management -- App. A, Using This Book in a Lab Course -- App. B, Report Template -- App. C, Linux Basics and Tools -- App. D, Answers to Questions -- References -- Index
Summary This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation. The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vulnerabilities arise and practical experience tackling them. After presenting the basics of security principles, virtual environments, and network services, the authors explain the core security principles of authentication and access control, logging and log analysis, web application security, certificates and public-key cryptography, and risk management. The book concludes with appendices on the design of related courses, report templates, and the basics of Linux as needed for the assignments. The authors have successfully taught IT security to students and professionals using the content of this book and the laboratory setting it describes. The book can be used in undergraduate or graduate laboratory courses, complementing more theoretically oriented courses, and it can also be used for self-study by IT professionals who want hands-on experience in applied information security. The authors' supporting software is freely available online and the text is supported throughout with exercises
Analysis Computer science
Data protection
Data structures (Computer science)
Information Systems
Management information systems
Systems and Data Security
Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
Management of Computing and Information Systems
Innovation/Technology Management
Business Information Systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Computer security
Data encryption (Computer science)
Computer networks -- Security measures.
Data protection.
Informatique.
Computer networks -- Security measures
Computer security
Data encryption (Computer science)
Data protection
Betriebssystem
Computersicherheit
Kryptoanalyse
Logdatei
Public-Key-Kryptosystem
Rechnernetz
Risikoanalyse
Softwareschwachstelle
Virtuelle Maschine
Zugriffskontrolle
Anwendungssystem
Form Electronic book
Author Schaller, Patrick
Schläpfer, Michael
ISBN 9783642244742
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