Carry on : sound advice from schneier on security / / Bruce Schneier

• Autore: Schneier Bruce
• Pubblicazione: Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Wiley, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.28
• Soggetto topico: Security systems; Terrorism
• Classificazione: ST 277
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 The Business and Economics of Security; Consolidation: Plague or Progress; Prediction: RSA Conference Will Shrink Like a Punctured Balloon; How to Sell Security; Why People Are Willing to Take Risks; How to Sell Security; Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?; The Pros and Cons of LifeLock; The Problem Is Information Insecurity; Security ROI: Fact or Fiction?; The Data Imperative; Caveat Emptor; Social Networking Risks; Do You Know Where Your Data Are?; Be Careful When You Come to Put Your Trust in the Clouds; Is Perfect Access Control Possible? ; News Media Strategies for Survival for JournalistsSecurity and Function Creep; Weighing the Risk of Hiring Hackers; Should Enterprises Give In to IT Consumerization at the Expense of Security?; The Vulnerabilities Market and the Future of Security; So You Want to Be a Security Expert; When It Comes to Security, We're Back to Feudalism; I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of Convenience; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet; Chapter 2 Crime, Terrorism, Spying, and War; America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves ; Are Photographers Really a Threat?CCTV Doesn't Keep Us Safe, Yet the Cameras Are Everywhere; Chinese Cyberattacks: Myth or Menace?; How a Classic Man-in-the-Middle Attack Saved Colombian Hostages; How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity; A Fetishistic Approach to Security Is a Perverse Way to Keep Us Safe; The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists; Why Society Should Pay the True Costs of Security; Why Technology Won't Prevent Identity Theft; Terrorists May Use Google Earth, but Fear Is No Reason to Ban It; Thwarting an Internal Hacker ; An Enterprising Criminal Has Spotted a Gap in the MarketWe Shouldn't Poison Our Minds with Fear of Bioterrorism; Raising the Cost of Paperwork Errors Will Improve Accuracy; So-Called Cyberattack Was Overblown; Why Framing Your Enemies Is Now Virtually Child's Play; Beyond Security Theater; Feeling and Reality; Refuse to Be Terrorized; Cold War Encryption Is Unrealistic in Today's Trenches; Profiling Makes Us Less Safe; Fixing Intelligence Failures; Spy Cameras Won't Make Us Safer; Scanners, Sensors Are Wrong Way to Secure the Subway; Preventing Terrorist Attacks in Crowded Areas ; Where Are All the Terrorist Attacks?Hard to Pull Off; Few Terrorists; Small Attacks Aren't Enough; Worst-Case Thinking Makes Us Nuts, Not Safe; Threat of ""Cyberwar"" Has Been Hugely Hyped; Cyberwar and the Future of Cyber Conflict; Why Terror Alert Codes Never Made Sense; Debate Club: An International Cyberwar Treaty Is the Only Way to Stem the Threat; Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks; Militarizing Cyberspace Will Do More Harm Than Good; Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear-and More Cyber War; Attacks from China; GhostNet; Profitable ; The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
• Sommario/riassunto: Up-to-the-minute observations from a world-famous security expert Bruce Schneier is known worldwide as the foremost authority and commentator on every security issue from cyber-terrorism to airport surveillance. This groundbreaking book features more than 160 commentaries on recent events including the Boston Marathon bombing, the NSA's ubiquitous surveillance programs, Chinese cyber-attacks, the privacy of cloud computing, and how to hack the Papal election. Timely as an Internet news report and always insightful, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from current events t
• Titolo autorizzato: Carry on
• ISBN: 1-118-79083-9; 1-118-79082-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787630603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II