Although most people don't give security much attention until their
personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking
anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking
about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising
enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the
same.
Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful
essays and analysis on topics that include:
- The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the
relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on
their prey
- How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help
or hurt our online security
- How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security
to a higher level
- The real, little-publicized history of PGP
This book includes contributions from:
- Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
- Jim Stickley
- Elizabeth Nichols
- Chenxi Wang
- Ed Bellis
- Ben Edelman
- Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas
- Kathy Wang
- Mark Curphey
- John McManus
- James Routh
- Randy V. Sabett
- Anton Chuvakin
- Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy
- Peter Wayner
- Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco
All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF).