Securing Information and Communications Systems: Principles, Technologies, and Applications

Written by an international team of security experts, this compact reference gives professionals comprehensive information on the newest types of threats and sufficient background to learn how to smell even newer ones coming. The contributors describe security concepts, services, threats, business-integrated information security management, user authentication technologies (including authentication based on secret knowledge and biometrics), authorization and access control (including classic methods, role-based techniques and attribute-based control), applications centered on data, modern cryptology, security for networks, standard public key and privilege management infrastructures, smart cards and tokens, privacy-enhancing technology, content filtering technologies (and how the law applies), models for cybercrime investigation, systemic and holistic approaches, mobile wiki systems security, and in a particularly interesting chapter, security methods pertaining to electronic voting systems. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)