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Book Notes: Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
It seems like a good deal: the sign says that if the cashier fails to give a receipt you get your purchase free. Who knows? Maybe you track your expenses or you need the receipt for a reimbursement. Plus, it never hurts to have a shot at something free.
Actually, Bruce Schneier writes, the offer is a clever security maneuver. The store’s owner wants to make sure the cashier rings up sales, and generating a receipt for the customer also creates an internal register receipt. The offer enlists the customer as a security agent—not receiving a receipt means the customer will ask for reimbursement and the manager or owner will be notified that the cashier did not ring up the sale…
An Interview with Bruce Schneier
BRUCE SCHNEIER is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a “security guru,” Schneier is best known as a candid and lucid security critic and commentator. He has written articles for, among other publications, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Sydney Morning Herald, International Herald Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Salon.com, Wired Magazine, and San Jose Mercury News. He is also the founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., the world’s leading protector of networked information—the inventor of outsourced security monitoring and the foremost authority on effective mitigation of emerging IT threats…
Schneier: Microsoft still has work to do
Part 1
Bruce Schneier is founder and chief technology officer of Mountain View, Calif.-based MSSP Counterpane Internet Security Inc. and author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies and Beyond Fear. He also publishes Crypto-Gram, a free monthly newsletter, and writes op-ed pieces for various publications. Schneier spoke to SearchSecurity.com about the latest threats, Microsoft’s ongoing security struggles and other topics in a two-part interview that took place by e-mail and phone last month. In this installment, he talks about the “hype” of SP2 and explains why it’s “foolish” to use Internet Explorer…
Beyond Fear
Security expert Bruce Schneier talks with CIO Update about how CIOs can best meet the security challenge.
Bruce Schneier, one of the country’s leading computer-security experts, is the author of the highly acclaimed Beyond Fear. This no-nonsense look at security—both in the real-world and on corporate networks—dissects security in such a way as to help readers become better consumers of it.
Schneier certainly knows his way around such questions. He is the founder of Counterpane Internet Security, a global provider of outsourced security monitoring services. With a suite of services—including firewall and IDS device management, vulnerability scanning and consulting—Counterpane monitors security on more than 400 networks in 32 countries…
Neowin Interview : Bruce Schneier
Described by The Economist as a “security guru”, Bruce Schneier is a well known security analyst who has gained notoriety from his popular security mailing list, Cryptogram, and his 3 books on various security subjects. Bruce was kind enough to take the time to have a chat with Neowin, and talk about himself, security, Microsoft, and much more.
Bruce, thanks for taking the time to talk to Neowin; could you start by giving us a brief history of yourself, what you’ve done, and what you’re doing at the moment?
My security career seems to have been a continuing process of becoming more generalized. First cryptography, then computer security, and now general security. You can see the progression in my books. Applied Cryptography was my attempt to explain cryptography to programmers. Secrets and Lies was my attempt to explain computer security to IT people. And my latest book, Beyond Fear, explains security and security technology to anyone interested; in today’s world, that should be everyone…
Survival Guide: Bruce Schneier, cofounder of Counterpane Internet Security Inc
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Bruce Schneier, an international security expert and author
The Sept. 11 Commission’s recommendation that Congress create a national intelligence director to oversee the country’s 15 information-gathering agencies has been gaining support in recent weeks. But Bruce Schneier, an international security expert and author of numerous books on security technology, said the government should focus more on changing the culture of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The cofounder and chief technical officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a Mountain View, Calif., provider of managed security-monitoring services, Schneier takes a skeptical view of centralized security efforts such as the Homeland Security Department and its U.S. Visit program to track foreign visitors…
Books: Schneier's Beyond Fear; O'Reilly's Network Security; Global Whistleblowing
Excerpt
Here are some recently released top-quality books:
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security In An Uncertain World, by Bruce Schneier. Schneier continues proving himself a leading thinker on security issues, in part because he continues to evolve from an expert who first approached security as a techno-centrist to one who now sees security as a process involving a broader set of factors, including power, agenda, bureaucracy and people. A goal of the latest book is to take the lessons that Schneier has learned in his computer security work and apply them to other security concerns, like protecting the nation from terrorist attacks, or protecting homes from burglars…
Review: Beyond Fear
The subtitle, “Thinking about security in an uncertain world”, describes this book accurately. Schneier is a security consultant, offering a five-step approach to assess the merits of measures proposed to meet a perceived threat.
- What assets are you trying to protect?
- What are the threats to those assets?
- How well do the measures mitigate these risks?
- What other risks do these measures cause?
- What costs and trade-offs are involved?
His main theme is the threat from terrorism, exemplified by the attacks in the USA on September 11th, 2001, but he also discusses (for example) how householders can protect against intruders, travelers can best guard their possessions or users defend against credit card fraud…
REVIEW: Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier
It is instructive to view this book in light of another recent publication. Marcus Ranum, in “The Myth of Homeland Security” (cf. BKMYHLSC.RVW) [See Rob’s review in RISKS-23.02 and Marcus’s response in RISKS-23.14. PGN] complains that the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) is making mistakes, but provides only tentative and unlikely solutions. Schneier shows how security should work, and does work, presenting basic concepts in lay terms with crystal clarity. Schneier does not tell you how to prepare a security system as such, but does illustrate what goes on in the decision-making process…
Book Reviews: Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear
When one becomes more than an expert in an area, he or she generally begins to take a philosophical and abstract view of the subject and gains an ability to explain the essence of the subject in simplistic layman terms. That, in short, would describe Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear.
It’s a question many of us need to ask ourselves. Are we really at risk? Or are we just afraid? Schneier provides us with hundreds of small examples repeatedly emphasizing the need to take another look at our reactions to the recent global security threats. Coming from an expert in security, and cryptologist, the book attempts to wash away the possibility of taking a standard approach to managing security. He dispels the notion that security is only for experts and convincingly proves that anyone can understand security…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.