Kizza M.G. Guide to Computer Network Security

3rd Edition. — Springer, 2015. — 568 p. — ISBN10: 1447166531, ISBN13: 978-1-4471-6653-5.This fully updated new edition explores the security issues, vulnerabilities and dangers encountered by the users of modern computing and communication devices, highlighting the need to develop improved algorithms, protocols, and best practices to enhance the security of public, private and enterprise systems alike.Features: introduces the fundamentals of traditional computer networks and the security threats they face; discusses the security challenges introduced by virtualization software, cloud computing and mobile systems; examines the security quagmire presented by the home computing environment; raises important legislative, legal, social, technical and ethical security issues, including the tension between the needs of individual privacy and collective security; provides both quickly workable and more thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter, with one chapter devoted entirely to lab exercises; supplies additional support material for instructors at an associated website.Introduction to Computer Network Security
Computer Network Fundamentals
Computer Network Security Fundamentals
Security Issues and Challenges in the Traditional Computer Network
Security Motives and Threats to Computer Networks
Introduction to Computer Network Vulnerabilities
Cyber Crimes and Hackers
Scripting and Security in Computer Networks and Web Browsers
Security Assessment, Analysis, and Assurance
Dealing with Computer Network Security Challenges
Disaster Management
Access Control and Authorization
Authentication
Cryptography
Firewalls
System Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Computer and Network Forensics
Virus and Content Filtering
Standardization and Security Criteria: Security Evaluation of Computer Products
Computer Network Security Protocols
Security in Wireless Networks and Devices
Security in Sensor Networks
Other Efforts to Secure Data in Computer Networks
Elastic Extension Beyond the Traditional Computer Network: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobile Systems
Cloud Computing and Related Security Issues
Virtualization Security
Mobile Systems and Corresponding Intractable Security Issues
Securing the Last Frontiers – The Home Front
Conquering the Last Frontier in the Digital Invasion: The Home Front
Hands-on Projects
Projects