Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier
Hardcover
- 432 pages 1 edition (August 14, 2000)
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Whom can you trust? Try Bruce Schneier, whose rare gift for common
sense makes his book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked
World both enlightening and practical. He's worked in cryptography
and electronic security for years, and has reached the depressing
conclusion that even the loveliest code and toughest hardware still
will yield to attackers who exploit human weaknesses in the users.
The book is neatly divided into three parts, covering the turn-of-the-century
landscape of systems and threats, the technologies used to protect
and intercept data, and strategies for proper implementation of security
systems. Moving away from blind faith in prevention, Schneier advocates
swift detection and response to an attack, while maintaining firewalls
and other gateways to keep out the amateurs.
Newcomers to the world of Schneier will be surprised at how funny
he can be, especially given a subject commonly perceived as quiet
and dull. Whether he's analyzing the security issues of the rebels
and the Death Star in Star Wars or poking fun at the giant software
and e-commerce companies that consistently sacrifice security for
sexier features, he's one of the few tech writers who can provoke
laughter consistently. While moderately pessimistic on the future
of systems vulnerability, he goes on to relieve the reader's tension
by comparing our electronic world to the equally insecure paper
world we've endured for centuries--a little smart-card fraud doesn't
seem so bad after all. Despite his unfortunate (but brief) shill
for his consulting company in the book's afterword, you can trust
Schneier to dish the dirt in Secrets and Lies. --Rob Lightner
From The Industry Standard
In April 1999, Bruce Schneier, mathematician, digital security expert
and unlikely hacker-scene hero, had an epiphany. It prodded him
to reorganize his company, Counterpane Internet Security, and altered
his view of securing computer systems. The fruits of that thinking
also make up the bulk of his engaging and exhaustive new book, Secrets
and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World.
Schneier, the creator of two widely used data-scrambling formulas
and author of the definitive Applied... read
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