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The Secrets & Lies of Cyber-Security
In a readable new book, an expert tells managers how to keep the hackers at bay—almost
A computer virus shuts down your corporate e-mail for a day. Hackers deface your Web site with pornography. The need to share data with customers and vendors exposes critical corporate information to online theft. With your business ever more dependent on safe use of the Internet, security savvy has become as important as understanding marketing or finance.
Such savvy, however, has been hard for nontechie executives to acquire. Books and articles on security generally came in two equally useless varieties: incomprehensible or sensationalized. Remember all those books on how the Y2K bug would end civilization as we knew it? Now, Bruce Schneier, a highly respected security expert, has stepped into the breach with …
To Catch a Thief
From a security maven, a new book on how to think like a hacker
In April 1999, Bruce Schneier, mathematician, digital security expert and unlikely hacker-scene hero, had an epiphany. It prodded him to reorganize this company, Counterpane Internet Security, and altered his view of securing computer systems. The fruits of that thinking also make up the bulk of his engaging and exhaustive new book, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World.
Schneier, the creator of two widely used data-scrambling formulas and author of the definitive Applied Cryptography, realized that he and his colleagues were trained to view security as a hopeless prophylactic, a passive approach that relies too heavily on complex technologies to keep hackers and criminals out. “Too many system designers think about security design as a cookbook thing,” writes Schneier. Add a firewall and a pinch of encryption, and eventually you’ll have a secure system…
Put Not Your Trust in Maths
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World.
By Bruce Schneier.
John Wiley & Sons; 432 pages; $29.99 and £19.50
WHEN an acknowledged expert suddenly announces that his previous views are completely wrong, it is time to take notice. That is exactly what Bruce Schneier, an authority on computer security, has just done in “Secrets and Lies”. Like many in his field, he used to be beguiled by the mathematics of cryptography, and believed that, with enough fancy encryption and authentication, it was possible to build a totally secure system—a mathematical utopia he described in a previous book, “Applied Cryptography”, which became a standard work. But Mr Schneier now believes that he was wrong, and “Secrets and Lies” is his bid to correct this mistake…
Security out of Obscurity
Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier, John Wiley, £19.50, ISBN 0471253111
An exceptional amount of disinformation plagues the world of information security. For decades spies obstructed the “proliferation” of cryptographic and security know-how. This made their job of snooping far easier.
When in 1993 I tried to organise a research programme in computer security, cryptography and coding theory, a spook in a suit approached the institute involved. He told the director that “There’s nothing interesting happening in cryptography, and Her Majesty’s government would like this state of affairs to continue.” To his great credit, the director spilled the beans; the institute’s reaction guaranteed our funding…
You Believe in Computer Security? Then There’s a Bridge in Brooklyn You Should Buy
You have to respect an author who begins a book by confessing that he wrote it “partly to correct a mistake,” especially when that author is one of the most respected authorities in a highly technical field. That’s exactly how Bruce Schneier begins his new book on computer security, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York. 2000). What he is actually confessing is a kind of naiveté shared by altogether too many people regarding computer security: that technology is the answer. That was the implied thesis of his earlier book on applied cryptography, still an excellent guide to the guts of cryptographic systems…
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Internationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more…
Ain’t No Network Strong Enough
Master cryptographer Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies explains why computer security is an oxymoron.
The cloak-and-dagger capers of computer no-goodniks may seem like prime page-turning material, but most books on the subject have all the sex appeal of a VCR manual. The typical tome on digital security is a dreary assemblage of techno-jargon, geared toward the small clique that gets its hardcore jollies from Perl programming. Most laymen are asleep by Page 10, or at least yearning for their dog-eared copy of “Hannibal.”
Bruce Schneier, master cryptographer and idol of the computer underground, targets those short-attention-spanners in his latest book, …
Software Development Magazine Product Excellence Awards
Bruce Schneier’s book Secrets and Lies won a Productivity Award in the 13th Annual Software Development Magazine Product Excellence Awards.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.