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((Subject:"Computer networks" AND Subject:"Security measures.") OR (Subject:("Computer security.")) OR (Subject:("Data protection.")) OR (Subject:("Business enterprises -- Security measures."))) OR (Subject:(" Information technology -- Security measures."))

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Books for Getting Started

Network Security and Cryptography by Sarhan M. Musa
ISBN: 9781683922933

Publication Date: 2018-03-28
Elementary Information Security by Richard E. Smith
ISBN: 9781284153040

Publication Date: 2019-10-28
Cybersecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg
ISBN: 9781119560340

Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Information Security by Ali Ismail Awad (Editor); Michael Fairhurst (Editor)
ISBN: 9781849199766

Tools of the Trade

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook by Dafydd Stuttard; Marcus Pinto
ISBN: 1118026470

Publication Date: 2011-09-27
Cybersecurity Blue Team Toolkit by Nadean H. Tanner
ISBN: 9781119552963

Publication Date: 2019-04-08
Engineering Secure and Dependable Software Systems by A. Pretschner (Editor); P. Müller (Editor); P. Stöckle (Editor)
ISBN: 9781614999768

Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Handbook of System Safety and Security by Edward Griffor (Editor)
ISBN: 0128038381

Publication Date: 2016-10-02
The IoT Hacker's Handbook by Aditya Gupta
ISBN: 9781484242995

Publication Date: 2019-04-01

Case Studies

Information Security: Contemporary Cases
Subject(s): Computer security --Case studies. Computer networks --Security measures --Case studies.

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Management

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Information Security Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Security in the Organization
Subject(s): Computer security. Computer architecture.
A Business Guide to Information Security: How to Protect your Company’s IT Assets, Reduce Risks and Understand the Law
Subject(s): Computer security. Information resources management --Security measures. Data protection. Business--Data processing--Security measures.
Information Risk and Security: Preventing and Investigating Workplace Computer Crime
Contents: 1. Perception of Risk -- 2. Computer Fraud -- 3. IP Theft -- 4. Password Misuse -- 5. Trash Risk -- 6. Wireless Risk -- 7. Sabotage, Extortion Blackmail -- 8. Social Engineering -- 9. PC Risks -- 10. Pornography -- 11. Anonymous Letters -- 12. Press Leaks -- 13. Incident Response -- 14. Computer Evidence -- 15. Covert Investigation -- 16. Analytical Methods -- 17. Investigative Resources -- 18. Court -- 19. Exit Procedures -- 20. Epilogue -- 21. APPENDIX I CPA -- 22. APPENDIX 2 Computer Policy -- 23. APPENDIX 3 Search Orders -- 24. APPENDIX 4 Decision Matrix -- 25. APPENDIX 5 Security.
Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues
Subject(s): Computer security. Computer networks --Security measures. Management information systems.
Practical Vulnerability Management by Andrew Magnusson
ISBN: 9781593279882

Publication Date: 2020-10-06

The Information Revolution, Information Warfare and National Security

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Information Assurance: Trends in Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Technologies (Ebook)
Subject(s): Computer networks --Security measures. Data protection. Firewalls (Computer security).
The Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution may not Lead to Security, Democracy, or Peace
Contents: The Complexity of Transparency -- Transparency and Conflict -- Transparency and Intergroup Violence -- Transparency and Conflict Intervention -- Transparency and Governance -- Global Implications of Growing Transparency.
Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare
Call Number: U163 .L534 2007

Contents: Introduction -- Hostile Conquest as Information Warfare -- Information Warfare as Noise -- Can Information Warfare Be Strategic -- Information Warfare against Command and Control -- Friendly Conquest in Cyberspace -- Friendly Conquest Using Global Systems -- Retail Conquest in Cyberspace -- From Intimacy, Vulnerability -- Talking Conquest in Cyberspace -- Managing Conquest in Cyberspace -- Appendix A: Why Cyperspace is Likely to Gain Consequence.
Information Warfare: Separating Hype from Reality
Contents: Introduction -- Information Operations: The Policy and Organizational Evolution -- Perception Management: IO’s Stepchild -- Information Operations in the Global War on Terror: Lessons Learned from Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Cyberterrorism: Hype and reality -- Information Operations Education: Lessons Learned from Information Assurance -- Information Operations and the Average Citizen -- A Tale of Two Cities: Approaches to Counterterrorism and Critical Infrastructure Protection in Washington, D.C. and Canberra -- Speaking Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth: Approaches to Perception Management in Washington, D.C. and Canberra -- Conclusion.