Guide to Computer Network Security - Joseph Migga Kizza

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Résumé :
This comprehensive guide exposes the security risks and vulnerabilities of computer networks and networked devices, offering advice on developing improved algorithms and best practices for enhancing system security. Fully revised and updated, this new edition embraces a broader view of computer networks that encompasses agile mobile systems and social networks. Features: provides supporting material for lecturers and students, including an instructor's manual, slides, solutions, and laboratory materials; includes both quick and more thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter; devotes an entire chapter to laboratory exercises; discusses flaws and vulnerabilities in computer network infrastructures and protocols; proposes practical and efficient solutions to security issues; explores the role of legislation, regulation, and law enforcement in maintaining computer and computer network security; examines the impact of developments in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile systems.

Biographie:
Dr. Joseph Migga Kizza is a Professor and Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA. Among his other publications is the successful Springer textbook Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age.

Sommaire:

Part I: Understanding Traditional Computer Network Security

Computer Network Fundamentals

Understanding Computer Network Security

Part II: Security Challenges to Traditional Computer Networks

Security Threats to Computer Networks

Computer Network Vulnerabilities

Cyber Crimes and Hackers

Hostile Scripts

Security Assessment, Analysis, and Assurance

Part III: Dealing with Network Security Challenges

Disaster Management

Access Control and Authorization

Authentication

Cryptography

Firewalls

System Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Computer and Network Forensics

Virus and? Content Filtering

Standardization and Security Criteria: Security Evaluation of Computer Products

Computer Network Security Protocols

Security in Wireless Networks and Devices

Security in Sensor Networks

Part IV: Elastic Extension Beyond the Traditional Computer Network - Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobile Systems

Mobile Communication Systems and Related Security Issues

Virtualization Infrastructure and Related Security Issues

Cloud Computing and Related Security Issues

Other Efforts to Secure Information and Computer Networks

Part V: Hands-On Projects

Hands-On Projects