- Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable
Distributed Systems by Ross J. Anderson, 640 pages (January 22, 2001)
Published by John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471389226
- Information Security Risk Analysis, by Thomas R.
Peltier,1st edition (January 23, 2001) Published by Auerbach Publications;
ISBN: 0849308801
- Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier,432 pages 1 edition (August 14, 2000) Published by John
Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471253111
- Hacking Exposed by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, George
Kurtz, 703 pages 2nd edition (October 11, 2000) Published By McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0072127481
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source
Code in C, 2nd Edition by Bruce Schneier, 784 pages 2 edition (October 18,
1995) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471117099
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Practices (The SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Julia H. Allen, 464
pages 1 edition (June 7, 2001) Publsihed by Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN:
020173723X
- Information Security Management Handbook 2001 by Harold
F. Tipton (Editor), Micki Krause (Editor) 626 pages 4th edition Vol 2
(January 15, 2000) Published By Auerbach Publications; ISBN: 0849308003
- Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked
Communities by Dorothy E. Denning, Herbert S. Lin (Editor) 172 pages
(December 1994) Published by National Academy Press; ISBN: 0309050901
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Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program by Gerald L.
Kovacich, 224 pages (May 1998) Published by Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN:
0750698969
Videos
Decoding Nazi Secrets PBS NOVA
If we choose to not to remember history... In the 1930's the enigma
machine was thought to be invincible. By the end of the middle of the
1940's we were breaking the cryptography faster and reporting it faster than
it could be decrypted and handled through the proper Nazi
channels. The video tells the story from the English perspective
and the insight is worth watching. You can find more about this online
at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2615decoding.html
PBS has related their story to the modern Internet. You can find out
how we do things today in laymen's terms at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/web.html
If you want to play cryptoanalyst the way that they did at Bletchley Park
during World War II you can by visiting www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/doubplayfair.html
. The Double Playfair system was considered then to be MOST SECRET and
has only recently described in declassified documents.
The Mind of a Codebreaker is about the kind of people it took to break the
German Enigma Machine. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/mind.html
Alan Turing and his crew were not just dealing with mathematics, they were
dealing with human nature. Read and try to find out if 5h3 mow5
wimpl3 or d4yp5o dqn g3 g4ok3n. See if you have what it takes to
break this cipher by moving your left hand up one level on the keyboard and
watching what you type. Just remember, the most simple of crypto can be
broken.
Online Support:
After WWII the United States found out that keeping a big secret known by a
large number of people may be impossible. The full resources of the
Federal Government went into the safekeeping of the most important secret of
our day and it was all undone by a guy and his Kleenex box. The
story is located at http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/kgb/inv/kgb_inv_ins.htm
. There is more to be found about this and The KGB vs. The CIA: The
Secret Struggle. Just get on the WWW and visit www.pbs.org/redfiles/kgb/debrief/k_brief_ter_knightley.htm
What the heck is a hacker anyway? Someone that is really interested
in security should be interested in this question. Why? Because we
are saddled with words as well as being uplifted by them. Frankly if we
are going to use this word then we all need to get on board and quit listening
to the rhetoric. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/whoare/index.html
attempts to identify who hackers are. I think they are saying more about
what they are.
