Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

by Bruce Schneier (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2004

  $18.46

  Bestselling author, Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a network. Internationally recognized computer security expert, Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more. This book walks the reader through the real choices they have now for digital security and how to pick and choose the right one to meet their business needs. It explains what cryptography can and can't do in achieving digital security.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $12.00

  Praise for Sectrets and Lies This is a business issue, not a technical one, and executives can no longer leave such decisions to techies. That's why Secrets and Lies belongs in every manager's library. Business Week Clear and passionate, this is the definitive book on Internet security from the leading thinker on the subject. The Industry Standard Startlingly lively...a jewel box of little surprises you can actually use. Fortune Secrets is a comprehensive, well-written work on a topic few business leaders can afford to neglect. Business 2.0 Instead of talking algorithms to geeky programmers, [Schneier] offers a primer in practical computer security aimed at those shopping, communicating or doing business online almost everyone, in other words. The Economist Schneier peppers the book with lively anecdotes and aphorisms, making it unusually accessible. Los Angeles Times