Elsevier Cyber Attacks 248pages software manual

Cyber Attacks Protecting National Infrastructure

By
Edward Amoroso, Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T

Description
No nation - especially the United States - has a coherent technical and architectural strategy for preventing cyber attack from crippling essential critical infrastructure services. This book initiates an intelligent national (and international) dialogue amongst the general technical community around proper methods for reducing national risk. This includes controversial themes such as the deliberate use of deception to trap intruders. It also serves as an attractive framework for a new national strategy for cyber security, something that several Presidential administrations have failed in attempting to create. In addition, nations other than the US might choose to adopt the framework as well

Amoroso offers a technical, architectural, and management solution to the problem of protecting national infrastructure. This includes practical and empirically-based guidance for security engineers, network operators, software designers, technology managers, application developers, and even those who simply use computing technology in their work or home. Each principle is presented as a separate security strategy, along with pages of compelling examples that demonstrate use of the principle. A specific set of criteria requirements allows any organization, such as a government agency, to integrate the principles into their local environment.

This book takes the national debate on protecting critical infrastructure in an entirely new and fruitful direction.

Audience:
Security professionals tasked with protection of critical infrastructure and with cyber security. CSOs and other top managers. Government and military security specialists and policymakers. Security managers. Students in cybersecurity and international security programs.