Applied Information Security: A Hands-On Approach

by Basin, David; Schaller, Patrick; Schlapfer, Michael

• ISBN13: 9783642244735
• ISBN10: 3642244734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-27
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight numerous information security problems and pitfalls arising in modern operating systems, networks, and Web applications. The experiments and accompanying text explain how to identify and exploit such problems. Moreover, they emphasize different countermeasures and their implementation. In this way, the reader gains a detailed understanding of how vulnerabilities arise in practice and practical experience countering them.This book can be used in one of two ways. It can be used for self-study by students or practitioners desiring hands-on experience in applied information security. It also can be used within a laboratory course at university, complementing more theoretically oriented courses.