Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies & Thieves

the long version

This groundbreaking new work discusses the growing vulnerabilities and the importance of protecting digital information. It explains how and why attacks occur and shows you how to prevent and detect future attacks.Secure your network against cyber spiesProtect your systems and assets against the everything from computer viruses to the directed threats of hackers, criminals, competitors and infoterroristas. In Defending Your Digital Assets, expert authors Randall K. Nichols, Daniel J. Ryan, and Julie J. C. H. Ryan give you the latest information on handling identification, authentication, and authorization, from cryptography to access control with passwords, tokens, and biometrics. You're shown how to develop frameworks for secure e-commerce and implement virtual private networks. You learn:How to evaluate your network for vulnerabilities and holes, and how to plug themWhat to do once the network has been attacked, and how to react, establishing security emergency response teams, network triage, and backup capabilityHow to protect against future attacksAnd much, much more