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Network Security: Technology Advances, Strategies, and Change Drivers
Format: Spiral-Bound, 484 pages
ISBN:0-931695-25-3
Price: $295
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Features
- Delves into network monitoring and recovery, encryption protocols, best practices for combating cyber-crime, and disaster recovery planning
- Describes current network security strategies and methodologies that have been implemented
- Outlines the key business trends that will drive the security industry toward a new generation of information security solutions—data security products that are proactive, automatic, and transparent and that allow users to seamlessly collaborate on sensitive business information
- Illustrates how the combination of increased cyber-threats and expanding broadband deployment is creating a real business opportunity for ISPs to offer security services to their residential and small-business subscribers
- Explores the prime offenders in Internet attacks, such as worms, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks
- Describes the characteristics of digital leaks, while also identifying potential sources of such leaks, assessing the potential costs incurred from leaks, and reviewing the most common forms of digital security
- Considers security issues from within the software-development process, from the initial phases to design and coding
- Highlights the types of attacks to which WLANs are most vulnerable while outlining the security methods and standards available today that can protect wireless networks
- Examines the use of 802.1x authentication mechanisms for authenticating user access to the LAN
- Focuses on the challenges of securing IP–based telecommunication networks, offering effective countermeasures and security architectures
- Pinpoints the various threats to a backbone router and analyzes how to detect, manage, and prevent such threats
- Discusses ad-hoc network security and addresses critical security issues involved in the deployment of ad-hoc networks
- Describes initiatives that have recently been deployed to address security concerns within virtual private optical networks, including hardware protection, networking protocols, data encryption, and self-managed optical MANs
- Analyzes the need for securing the core, explaining how core security represents an effective, efficient, and robust solution to protecting host integrity and securing data at rest
- Explores the challenges and benefits inherent in architecting and deployment of integrated multilayered enterprise intrusion detection systems
- Explains the how's and why's of user authentication using various biometric techniques
- Explores techniques for encrypting sensitive information to prevent unauthorized access and improve privacy for end users
- Presents the state-of-the-art in multimedia encryption, including an overview of multimedia watermarking techniques
- Enumerates the various security protocols and data encryption methods, while discussing their suitability for home, enterprise, and public access applications