Thinking Security Stopping Next Year's Hackers

If you’re a security or network professional, you already know the “do’s and don’ts”: run AV software and firewalls, lock down your systems, use encryption, watch network traffic, follow best practices, hire expensive consultants . . . but it isn’t working. You’re at greater risk than ever, and even the world’s most security-focused organizations are being victimized by massive attacks.

In Thinking Security, author Steven M. Bellovin provides a new way to think about security. As one of the world’s most respected security experts, Bellovin helps you gain new clarity about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. He helps you understand security as a systems problem, including the role of the all-important human element, and shows you how to match your countermeasures to actual threats. You’ll learn how to move beyond last year’s checklists at a time when technology is changing so rapidly.

You’ll also understand how to design security architectures that don’t just prevent attacks wherever possible, but also deal with the consequences of failures. And, within the context of your coherent architecture, you’ll learn how to decide when to invest in a new security product and when not to.

Bellovin, co-author of the best-selling Firewalls and Internet Security, caught his first hackers in 1971. Drawing on his deep experience, he shares actionable, up-to-date guidance on issues ranging from SSO and federated authentication to BYOD, virtualization, and cloud security.

Perfect security is impossible. Nevertheless, it’s possible to build and operate security systems far more effectively. Thinking Security will help you do just that.

Part I: Defining the Problem
1. Introduction
2. Thinking about Security
3. Threat Models

Part II: Technologies
4. Antivirus Software
5. Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems
6. Cryptography and VPNs
7. Passwords and Authentication
8. PKI: Public Key Infrastructures
9. Wireless Access
10. Clouds and Virtualization

Part III: Secure Operations
11. Building Secure Systems
12. Selecting Software
13. Keeping Software Up to Date
14. People
15. System Administration
16. Security Process

Part IV: The Future
17. Doing Security Properly

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