Core Software Security

Preface

The age of the software-driven machine has taken significant leaps over the last few years. Human tasks such as those of fighter pilots, stockexchange floor traders, surgeons, industrial production and power-plant operators that are critical to the operation of weapons systems, medical systems, and key elements of our national infrastructure, have been, or are rapidly being taken over by software. This is a revolutionary step in the machine whose brain and nervous system is now controlled by software-driven programs taking the place of complex nonrepetitive tasks that formerly required the use of the human mind. This has resulted in a paradigm shift in the way the state, military, criminals, activists, and other adversaries can attempt ...