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In Beautiful Security, today's security experts offer a collection of essays that describe bold and extraordinary methods to secure computer systems in the face of ever-increasing threats. You'll learn how new and more aggressive security measures work -- and where they will lead us. This far-reaching discussion takes you into the techniques, technology, ethics, and laws at the center of the biggest revolution in the history of network security.
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Psychological Security Traps
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Learned Helplessness and Naïveté
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Confirmation Traps
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Functional Fixation
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Summary
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Chapter 2 Wireless Networking: Fertile Ground for Social Engineering
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Easy Money
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Wireless Gone Wild
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Still, Wireless Is the Future
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Chapter 3 Beautiful Security Metrics
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Security Metrics by Analogy: Health
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Security Metrics by Example
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Summary
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Chapter 4 The Underground Economy of Security Breaches
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The Makeup and Infrastructure of the Cyber Underground
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The Payoff
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How Can We Combat This Growing Underground Economy?
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Summary
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Chapter 5 Beautiful Trade: Rethinking E-Commerce Security
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Deconstructing Commerce
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Weak Amelioration Attempts
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E-Commerce Redone: A New Security Model
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The New Model
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Chapter 6 Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West
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Attacks on Users
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Advertisers As Victims
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Creating Accountability in Online Advertising
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Chapter 7 The Evolution of PGP’s Web of Trust
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PGP and OpenPGP
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Trust, Validity, and Authority
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PGP and Crypto History
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Enhancements to the Original Web of Trust Model
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Interesting Areas for Further Research
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References
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Chapter 8 Open Source Honeyclient: Proactive Detection of Client-Side Exploits
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Enter Honeyclients
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Introducing the World’s First Open Source Honeyclient
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Second-Generation Honeyclients
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Honeyclient Operational Results
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Analysis of Exploits
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Limitations of the Current Honeyclient Implementation
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Related Work
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The Future of Honeyclients
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Chapter 9 Tomorrow’s Security Cogs and Levers
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Cloud Computing and Web Services: The Single Machine Is Here
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Connecting People, Process, and Technology: The Potential for Business Process Management
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Social Networking: When People Start Communicating, Big Things Change
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Information Security Economics: Supercrunching and the New Rules of the Grid
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Platforms of the Long-Tail Variety: Why the Future Will Be Different for Us All
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 10 Security by Design
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Metrics with No Meaning
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Time to Market or Time to Quality?
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How a Disciplined System Development Lifecycle Can Help
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Conclusion: Beautiful Security Is an Attribute of Beautiful Systems
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Chapter 11 Forcing Firms to Focus: Is Secure Software in Your Future?
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Implicit Requirements Can Still Be Powerful
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How One Firm Came to Demand Secure Software
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Enforcing Security in Off-the-Shelf Software
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Analysis: How to Make the World’s Software More Secure
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Chapter 12 Oh No, Here Come the Infosecurity Lawyers!
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Culture
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Balance
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Communication
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Doing the Right Thing
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Chapter 13 Beautiful Log Handling
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Logs in Security Laws and Standards
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Focus on Logs
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When Logs Are Invaluable
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Challenges with Logs
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Case Study: Behind a Trashed Server
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Future Logging
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Conclusions
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Chapter 14 Incident Detection: Finding the Other 68%
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A Common Starting Point
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Improving Detection with Context
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Improving Perspective with Host Logging
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Summary
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Chapter 15 Doing Real Work Without Real Data
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How Data Translucency Works
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A Real-Life Example
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Personal Data Stored As a Convenience
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Trade-offs
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Going Deeper
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References
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Chapter 16 Casting Spells: PC Security Theater
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Growing Attacks, Defenses in Retreat
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The Illusion Revealed
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Better Practices for Desktop Security
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Conclusion
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Appendix Contributors
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Product Details
- Title:
- Beautiful Security
- By:
- Andy Oram, John Viega
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print Release:
- April 2009
- Ebook Release:
- April 2009
- Pages:
- 304
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-52748-8
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-52748-9
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-80205-9
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-80205-6
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