Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think

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 Mc Manus 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).Additional ISBNs0596527489, 0596801785, 9780596527488, 9780596801786Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think 1st Edition is written by Andy Oram and published by O’Reilly Media. ISBNs for Beautiful Security are 9780596551285, 0596551282 and the print ISBNs are 9780596527488, 0596527489. Additional ISBNs include 0596527489, 0596801785, 9780596527488, 9780596801786.