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Title: Computer Security by Dieter Gollmann ISBN: 0-471-97844-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Translation, please!
Comment: This book begins with a poem in an unidentified language that is never translated. Take this as a clue to what you're in for throughout the book. Chock full of abbreviations, acronyms, waffles and other items of geekspeak grammar, this book is possibly good reference for super technicians already familiar with the topic. For a user who is taking his first course to become familiar with the basics of computer security, however, this book might as well be in another language. After reading two bad books on this subject, I am beginning to doubt that anyone really knows much about computer security. By the way, I could make the effort to find out what language the poem is in and what it says, but as with the more technical items in this book, isn't that what I paid the author to tell me? This book is a poor value for your money.
Rating: 5
Summary: unlike other books
Comment: The reason why I like this book is that its first chapter is *not* on cryptography and *not* on network security. Most other books focus on those issues (or on viruses) and do not deal with various security models in detail. Obviously, this is a theory biased textbook and not a book on 'how to make surfing with browser x version y.z more secure'. :-)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Survey of the Fundamenal Science of Computer Security
Comment: Dieter Gollmann's "Computer Security" provides an excellent survey of the fundamental science relating to the book's title. As stated in the Editorial Review, it is intended as a graduate Computer Science textbook. While this may be true, it is also valuable for anyone tasked with designing security into an application or distributed system.
The book provides a macro-level introduction to the primary subject areas involved in securing operating, network, and database systems, with varying levels of exposure to theoretical foundations, architectural tradeoffs, and practical implementations. These "varying levels" are perhaps the one difficulty I have with the book, because the treatment of some topic left me with an uneven understanding with respect to other important topics. For example:
In PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS, Chapter 3 (Access Control) lays thorough conceptual groundwork for understanding Chapter 4 (Security Models) which covers the theoretical development (Set Theory and Partial Order Relations) of formal Access Control Models.
These subjects are "bread and butter" to operating/database system securdesigners and receive very robust treatment given the overall dimensions of the book. However, other primary security topics (e.g. Cryptography) do not get enough fundamental explanation to leave an uninitiated reader with a sense of understanding. Perhaps, this dilemma is endemic to computer security itself - a paradigm that requires deep multi-disciplinary subject understanding to master. However, "Computer Security" does mitigate this apparent deficiency by providing a comprehensive Bibliography complete with 163 separate entries.
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Title: Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume I by Micki Krause, Harold F. Tipton ISBN: 0849398290 Publisher: Auerbach Pub Pub. Date: 28 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: Information Security Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Security in the Organization by Jan Killmeyer Tudor ISBN: 0849399882 Publisher: Auerbach Publications Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: The Principles of Project Management by et al. John R. Adams ISBN: 1880410303 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives by Maurice F. Greaver ISBN: 0814404340 Publisher: American Management Association Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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Title: How to Prepare for the AP Macroeconomics/Microeconomics by Frank Musgrave, Elia Kacapyr, Inc Barron's Educational Series ISBN: 0764111647 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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