Web Security and Commerce

Garfinkel, Simson, Spafford, Gene

ISBN 10: 1565922697 / ISBN 13: 9781565922693

Editore: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 1997

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• Titolo: Web Security and Commerce
• Editore: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1565922697
• ISBN 13: 9781565922693
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: 1st.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Explaining what the real security risks of web commerce are, this text goes on to explain how you can minimize them. Designed for Web surfers and system administrators responsible for the security of a critical web server, this provides information on all there is to know. Entertaining as well as illuminating, it looks behind the headlines at the technologies, risks, and benefits of the web.

L'autore

Simson Garfinkel, CISSP, is a journalist, entrepreneur, and international authority on computer security. Garfinkel is chief technology officer at Sandstorm Enterprises, a Boston-based firm that develops state-of-the-art computer security tools. Garfinkel is also a columnist for Technology Review Magazine and has written for more than 50 publications, including Computerworld, Forbes, and The New York Times. He is also the author of Database Nation; Web Security, Privacy, and Commerce; PGP: Pretty Good Privacy; and seven other books. Garfinkel earned a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1988 and holds three undergraduate degrees from MIT. He is currently working on his doctorate at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Gene Spafford, Ph.D., CISSP, is an internationally renowned scientist and educator who has been working in information security, policy, cybercrime, and software engineering for nearly two decades. He is a professor at Purdue University and is the director of CERIAS, the world's premier multidisciplinary academic center for information security and assurance. Professor Spafford and his students have pioneered a number of technologies and concepts well-known in security today, including the COPS and Tripwire tools, two-stage firewalls, and vulnerability databases. Spaf, as he is widely known, has achieved numerous professional honors recognizing his teaching, his research, and his professional service. These include being named a fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, and the IEEE; receiving the National Computer Systems Security Award; receiving the William Hugh Murray Medal of the NCISSE; election to the ISSA Hall of Fame; and receiving the Charles Murphy Award at Purdue. He was named a CISSP, honoris causa in 2000. In addition to over 100 technical reports and articles on his research, Spaf is also the coauthor of Web Security, Privacy, and Commerce, and was the consulting editor for Computer Crime: A Crimefighters Handbook (both from O'Reilly).