Engineering Trustworthy Systems ― Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time

Learn to apply the principles of cybersecurity using real-world examples contained in this comprehensive resource. Readers will learn to think strategically both from the attacker’s and defender’s perspectives. They will learn how to identify the highest priority risks using advanced risk assessment techniques, understand the entire space of attacks, and how to deploy effective cybersecurity measures to broadly and deeply address the entire attack space. The book includes objectives, detailed examples based on decades of practical cybersecurity engineering experience, diagrams explaining complex concepts in easy-to-understand constructs, chapter summaries highlighting the most important points, as well as references for further study.

Developed for self-study and classroom use, Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems: Timeless Principles to Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time lays out a concise set of best practices and best theories that can be applied to real security design problems. Readers will get never-before-published design principles, detailed examples, that span the entire spectrum of today’s cyberattacks. 

•Applies practial theories and focuses on the right ways to apply each technique

•Features real-world examples that reinforce each topic

Written by a seasoned cybersecurity professional and visionary 

Mr. O. Sami Saydjari has been a visionary and thought-leader in cybersecurity for three decades working for elite organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has published more than a dozen landmark papers in the field, consulted to national leadership on cybersecurity policy, and helps inform the public through interviews with major media organizations such as CNN, PBS, ABC, The Financial Times, The Wallstreet Journal and Time Magazine. Mr. Saydjari currently heads a small private strategic cybersecurity consulting firm called the Cyber Defense Agency, Inc. and leads a non-profit cybersecurity policy institution call Professionals for Cyber Defense.