Guide to Computer Network Security

This textbook provides a comprehensive guide to computing and information security and assurance, covering networks, mobile communications, online social networks, and artificial intelligence. It emphasizes the importance of security awareness and embraces new computing systems models. The fully updated edition includes new material on artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the metaverse. It is an invaluable resource for students, practitioners, and professionals in data- and information-intensive industries.

Format: Hardback
Length: 646 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough guide to the core topics in computing and information security and assurance realms, extending beyond the security of networks to the ubiquitous mobile communications and online social networks that have become an integral part of our daily lives. In the face of the increasing reliance of humans on a digital ecosystem, this book emphasizes the significance of security awareness, whether in personal, business, or public settings. It also embraces the emerging and rapidly evolving computing systems models, online social networks, and virtual platforms that are intertwining and driving the growth of an ecosystem of intelligent digital and associated social networks.

This fully updated edition features new material on emerging and developing artificial intelligence models across all computing security systems spheres, blockchain technology, and the metaverse, paving the way for the virtualization of security systems.

Topics and features:

• Examines the diverse range of risks and vulnerabilities in interconnected digital systems.
• Offers exercises of varying difficulty at the end of each chapter, culminating in a diverse range of practical projects.
• Describes the fundamentals of traditional computer network security, as well as common threats to security.
• Explores the role and challenges of artificial intelligence in advancing the security of computing systems, algorithms, protocols, and best practices.
• Raises thought-provoking questions regarding legislative, legal, social, technical, and ethical challenges, such as the tension between privacy and security.
• Provides supplementary material for students and instructors, including slides, additional projects, and syllabus suggestions, available on an associated website.

This essential textbook/reference is a valuable resource for students, professionals, and anyone interested in understanding and advancing the field of computing and information security and assurance.

Weight: 1166g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031475481
Edition number: 6th ed. 2024