Dr. William Stallings authored 18 textbooks, and, counting revised editions, a total of 70 books on various aspects of these subjects. His writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications, including the Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM Computing Reviews. He has 11 times received the award for the best Computer Science textbook of the year from the Text and Academic Authors Association.

In over 30 years in the field, he has been a technical contributor, technical manager, and an executive with several

high-technology firms. He has designed and implemented both TCP/IP-based and OSI-based protocol suites on a variety of computers and operating systems, ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. Currently he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions.

He created and maintains the Computer Science Student Resource Site at ComputerScienceStudent.com. This site provides documents and links on a variety of subjects of general interest to computer science students (and professionals). He is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, a scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of cryptology. His articles appear regularly at http://www.networking.answers.com, where he is the Networking Category Expert Writer.

Dr. Lawrie Brown is a visiting senior lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

His professional interests include communications and computer systems security and cryptography, including research on pseudo-anonymous communication, authentication, security and trust issues in Web environments, the design of secure remote code execution environments using the functional language Erlang, and on the design and implementation of the LOKI family of block ciphers. During his career, he has presented courses on cryptography

During his career, he has presented courses on cryptography, cybersecurity, data communications, data structures, and programming in Java to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Preface

Notation

About the Authors

Chapter 1     Overview

     1.1      Computer Security Concepts

     1.2      Threats, Attacks, and Assets

     1.3      Security Functional Requirements

     1.4      Fundamental Security Design Principles

     1.5      Attack Surfaces and Attack Trees

     1.6      Computer Security Strategy

     1.7      Standards

     1.8      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     2.1      Confidentiality with Symmetric Encryption

     2.2      Message Authentication and Hash Functions

     2.3      Public-Key Encryption

     2.4      Digital Signatures and Key Management

     2.5      Random and Pseudorandom Numbers

     2.6      Practical Application: Encryption of Stored Data

     2.7      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 3     User Authentication

     3.1      Digital User Authentication Principles

     3.2      Password-Based Authentication

     3.3      Token-Based Authentication

     3.4      Biometric Authentication

     3.5      Remote User Authentication

     3.6      Security Issues for User Authentication

     3.7      Practical Application: An Iris Biometric System

     3.8      Case Study: Security Problems for ATM Systems

     3.9      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 4     Access Control

     4.1      Access Control Principles

     4.2      Subjects, Objects, and Access Rights

     4.3      Discretionary Access Control

     4.4      Example: UNIX File Access Control

     4.5      Role-Based Access Control

     4.6      Attribute-Based Access Control

     4.7      Identity, Credential, and Access Management

     4.8      Trust Frameworks

     4.9      Case Study: RBAC System for a Bank

     4.10      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 5     Database and Data Center Security

     5.1      The Need for Database Security

     5.2      Database Management Systems

     5.3      Relational Databases

     5.4      SQL Injection Attacks

     5.5      Database Access Control

     5.6      Inference

     5.7      Database Encryption

     5.8      Data Center Security

     5.9      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 6     Malicious Software

     6.1      Types of Malicious Software

     6.2      Advanced Persistent Threat

     6.2      Propagation — Infected Content - Viruses

     6.3      Propagation — Vulnerability Exploit - Worms

     6.4      Propagation — Social Engineering — SPAM E-Mail, Trojans

     6.5      Payload — System Corruption

     6.6      Payload — Attack Agent — Zombie, Bots

     6.7      Payload — Information Theft — Keyloggers, Phishing, Spyware

     6.8      Payload — Stealthing — Backdoors, Rootkits

     6.9      Countermeasures

     6.10      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 7     Denial-of-Service Attacks

     7.1      Denial-of-Service Attacks

     7.2      Flooding Attacks

     7.3      Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks

     7.4      Application-Based Bandwidth Attacks

     7.5      Reflector and Amplifier Attacks

     7.6      Defenses Against Denial-of-Service Attacks

     7.7      Responding to a Denial-of-Service Attack

     7.8      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 8     Intrusion Detection

     8.1      Intruders

     8.2      Intrusion Detection

     8.3      Analysis Approaches

     8.4      Host-Based Intrusion Detection

     8.5      Network-Based Intrusion Detection

     8.6      Distributed or Hybrid Intrusion Detection

     8.7      Intrusion Detection Exchange Format

     8.8      Honeypots

     8.9      Example System: Snort

     8.10      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 9     Firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems

     9.1      The Need for Firewalls

     9.2      Firewall Characteristics and Access Policy

     9.3      Types of Firewalls

     9.4      Firewall Basing

     9.5      Firewall Location and Configurations

     9.6      Intrusion Prevention Systems

     9.7      Example: Unified Threat Management Products

     9.8      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     10.1      Stack Overflows

     10.2      Defending Against Buffer Overflows

     10.3      Other Forms of Overflow Attacks

     10.4      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 11     Software Security

     11.1      Software Security Issues

     11.2      Handling Program Input

     11.3      Writing Safe Program Code

     11.4      Interacting with the Operating System and Other Programs

     11.5      Handling Program Input

     11.6      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 12     Operating System Security

     12.1      Introduction to Operating System Security

     12.3      System Security Planning

     12.3      Operating Systems Hardening

     12.4      Application Security

     12.5      Security Maintenance

     12.6      Linux/UNIX Security

     12.7      Windows Security

     12.8      Virtualization Security

     12.9      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 13     Cloud and IoT Security

     13.1 Cloud Computing

     13.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     14.1      IT Security Management

     14.2      Organizational Context and Security Policy

     14.3      Security Risk Assessment

     14.4      Detailed Security Risk Analysis

     14.5      Case Study: Silver Star Mines

     14.6      Recommended Reading

     14.7      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     15.1      IT Security Management Implementation

     15.2      Security Controls or Safeguards

     15.3      IT Security Plan

     15.4      Implementation of Controls

     15.5      Monitoring Risks

     15.6      Case Study: Silver Star Mines

     15.7      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     16.1      Overview

     16.2      Physical Security Threats

     16.3      Physical Security Prevention and Mitigation Measures

     16.4      Recovery from Physical Security Breaches

     16.5      Example: A Corporate Physical Security Policy

     16.6      Integration of Physical and Logical Security

     16.7      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     17.1      Security Awareness, Training, and Education

     17.2      Employment Practices and Policies

     17.3      E-Mail and Internet Use Policies

     17.4      Computer Security Incident Response Teams

     17.5      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     18.1      Security Auditing Architecture

     18.2      The Security Audit Trail

     18.3      Implementing the Logging Function

     18.4      Audit Trail Analysis

     18.5      Security Information and Event Management

     18.6      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     19.1      Cybercrime and Computer Crime

     19.2      Intellectual Property

     19.3      Privacy

     19.4      Ethical Issues

     19.5      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     Appendix 19A: Information Privacy Standard of Good Practice

     20.1      Symmetric Encryption and Message Confidentiality

     20.2      Data Encryption Standard

     20.3      Advanced Encryption Standard

     20.4      Stream Ciphers and RC4

     20.5      Cipher Block Modes of Operation

     20.6      Key Distribution

     20.8      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     21.1      Secure Hash Functions

     21.2      HMAC

     21.3      Authenticated Encryption

     21.4 The RSA Public-Key Encryption Algorithm

     21.5 Diffie-Hellman and Other Asymmetric Algorithms

     21.6      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     22.1      Secure Email and S/MIME

     22.2      DomainKeys Identified Mail

     22.3      Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)

     22.4      HTTPS

     22.5      IPv4 and IPv6 Security

     22.6      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     23.1      Kerberos

     23.2      X.509

     23.3      Public-Key Infrastructure

     23.4      Federated Identity Management

     23.5      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     24.1      Wireless Security Overview

     24.2      Mobile Device Security

     24.3      IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Overview

     24.4      IEEE 802.11i Wireless LAN Security

     24.5      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

APPENDICES

Appendix  A  Projects and Other Student Exercises for Teaching Computer Security

     A.1      Hacking Project

     A.2      Laboratory Exercises

     A.3      Security Education (SEED) Projects

     A.4      Research Projects

     A.5      Programming Projects

     A.6      Practical Security Assessments

     A.7      Firewall Projects

     A.8      Case Studies

     A.9      Reading/Report Assignments

     A.10    Writing Assignments

     A.11    Webcasts for Teaching Computer Security

ACRONYMS

LIST OF NIST DOCUMENTS

REFERENCES

INDEX

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     25.1      Introduction

     25.2      Linux's Security Model

     25.3      The Linux DAC in Depth: Filesystem Security

     25.4      Linux Vulnerabilities

     25.5      Linux System Hardening

     25.6      Application Security

     25.7      Mandatory Access Controls

     25.8      Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

     26.1      Windows Security Architecture

     26.2      Windows Vulnerabilities

     26.3      Windows Security Defenses

     26.4      Browser Defenses

     26.5      Cryptographic Services

     26.6      Common Criteria

     26.7      Key Terms, Review Questions, Problems, and Projects

Appendix B Some Aspects of Number Theory

Appendix C Standards and Standard-Setting Organizations

Appendix D Random and Pseudorandom Number Generation

Appendix E Message Authentication Codes Based on Block Ciphers

Appendix F TCP/IP Protocol Architecture

Appendix G Radix-64 Conversion

Appendix H The Domain Name System

Appendix I The Base-Rate Fallacy

Appendix J SHA-3

Appendix K Glossary

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