Research Catalog

Title

Schneier on security / Bruce Schneier.

Author

Schneier, Bruce, 1963-

Publication

Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2008.

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Details

Description

viii, 328 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This collection of essays on security: on security technology, on security policy, and on how security works in the real world was previously published between June 2002 and June 2008. They offer a computer security expert's insights into a wide range of security issues, including the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated), the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power, why computer security is fundamentally an economic problem, the industry power struggle over controlling your computer, and why national ID cards won't make us safer, only poorer. Schneier recognizes that the ultimate security risk is people and that many security paractices are, in fact, secuirty risks. -- From publisher description.

Subject

• Security systems > Evaluation
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention
• Computer security > United States
• Computer networks > Security measures > United States
• Privacy, Right of > United States
• Cyberterrorism > United States
• Information warfare > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Terrorism and security -- National security policy -- Airline travel -- Privacy and surveillance -- ID cards and security -- Election security -- Security and disasters -- Economics of security -- Psychology of security -- Business of security -- Cybercrime and cyberwar -- Computer and information security.

ISBN

• 0470395354 (cloth)
• 9780470395356 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2008035466

OCLC

226356041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library