Computer Security

The Comprehensive Guide to Computer Security, Extensively Revised with Newer Technologies, Methods, Ideas, and Examples In this updated guide, University of California at Davis Computer Security Laboratory co-director Matt Bishop offers clear, rigorous, and thorough coverage of modern computer security. Reflecting dramatic growth in the quantity, complexity, and consequences of security incidents, Computer Security, Second Edition, links core principles with technologies, methodologies, and ideas that have emerged since the first edition's publication. Writing for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and IT professionals, Bishop covers foundational issues, policies, cryptography, systems design, assurance, and much more. He thoroughly addresses malware, vulnerability analysis, auditing, intrusion detection, and best-practice responses to attacks. In addition to new examples throughout, Bishop presents entirely new chapters on availability policy models and attack analysis. - Understand computer security goals, problems, and challenges, and the deep links between theory and practice - Learn how computer scientists seek to prove whether systems are secure - Define security policies for confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more - Analyze policies to reflect core questions of trust, and use them to constrain operations and change - Implement cryptography as one component of a wider computer and network security strategy - Use system-oriented techniques to establish effective security mechanisms, defining who can act and what they can do - Set appropriate security goals for a system or product, and ascertain how well it meets them - Recognize program flaws and malicious logic, and detect attackers seeking to exploit them This is both a comprehensive text, explaining the most fundamental and pervasive aspects of the field, and a detailed reference. It will help you align security concepts with realistic policies, successfully implement your policies, and thoughtfully manage the trade-offs that inevitably arise. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Matt Bishop is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His main research interest is the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems, including modeling them, building tools to detect vulnerabilities, and ameliorating or eliminating them. He works in the areas of network security, including the study of denial of service attacks and defenses, policy modeling, software assurance testing, resilience, and formal modeling of access control. He was co-chair of the Joint Task Force that developed the Cybersecurity Curricula 2017: Curriculum Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity, released in December 2017. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1984.

- Part I: Introduction - Chapter 1: An Overview of Computer Security - Part II: Foundations - Chapter 2: Access Control Matrix - Chapter 3: Foundational Results - Part III: Policy - Chapter 4: Security Policies - Chapter 5: Confidentiality Policies - Chapter 6: Integrity Policies - Chapter 7: Availability Policies - Chapter 8: Hybrid Policies - Chapter 9: Noninterference and Policy Composition - Part IV: Implementation I: Cryptography - Chapter 10: Basic Cryptography - Chapter 11: Key Management - Chapter 12: Cipher Techniques - Chapter 13: Authentication - Part V: Implementation II: Systems - Chapter 14: Design Principles - Chapter 15: Representing Identity - Chapter 16: Access Control Mechanisms - Chapter 17: Information Flow - Chapter 18: Confinement Problem - Part VI: Assurance - Chapter 19: Introduction to Assurance - Chapter 20: Building Systems with Assurance - Chapter 21: Formal Methods - Chapter 22: Evaluating Systems - Part VII: Special Topics - Chapter 23: Malware - Chapter 24: Vulnerability Analysis - Chapter 25: Auditing - Chapter 26: Intrusion Detection - Chapter 27: Attacks and Responses - Part VIII: Practicum - Chapter 28: Network Security - Chapter 29: System Security - Chapter 30: User Security - Chapter 31: Program Security - Part IX: Appendices - Appendix A: Lattices - Appendix B: The Extended Euclidean Algorithm - Appendix C: Entropy and Uncertainty - Appendix D: Virtual Machines - Appendix E: Symbolic Logic - Appendix F: The Encryption Standards - Appendix G: Example Academic Security Policy - Appendix H: Programming Rules