The Comprehensive Guide to Computer Security, Extensively Revised with Newer Technologies, Methods, Ideas, and Examples

In this updated guide, University of California at Davis Computer Security Laboratory co-director Matt Bishop offers clear, rigorous, and thorough coverage of modern computer security. Reflecting dramatic growth in the quantity, complexity, and consequences of security incidents, Computer Security, Second Edition, links core principles with technologies, methodologies, and ideas that have emerged since the first edition’s publication.

Writing for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and IT professionals, Bishop covers foundational issues, policies, cryptography, systems design, assurance, and much more. He thoroughly addresses malware, vulnerability analysis, auditing, intrusion detection, and best-practice responses to attacks. In addition to new examples throughout, Bishop presents entirely new chapters on availability policy models and attack analysis.

• Understand computer security goals, problems, and challenges, and the deep links between theory and practice
• Learn how computer scientists seek to prove whether systems are secure
• Define security policies for confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more
• Analyze policies to reflect core questions of trust, and use them to constrain operations and change
• Implement cryptography as one component of a wider computer and network security strategy
• Use system-oriented techniques to establish effective security mechanisms, defining who can act and what they can do
• Set appropriate security goals for a system or product, and ascertain how well it meets them
• Recognize program flaws and malicious logic, and detect attackers seeking to exploit them

This is both a comprehensive text, explaining the most fundamental and pervasive aspects of the field, and a detailed reference. It will help you align security concepts with realistic policies, successfully implement your policies, and thoughtfully manage the trade-offs that inevitably arise.

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Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 An Overview of Computer Security

PART II: FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 2 Access Control Matrix

Chapter 3 Foundational Results

PART Ill: POLICY

Chapter 4 Security Policies

Chapter 5 Confidentiality Policies

Chapter 6 Integrity Policies

Chapter 7 Availability Policies

Chapter 8 Hybrid Policies

Chapter 9 Noninterference and Policy Composition

PART IV: IMPLEMENTATION I: CRYPTOGRAPHY

Chapter 10 Basic Cryptography

Chapter 11 Key Management

Chapter 12 Cipher Techniques

Chapter 13 Authentication

PART V: IMPLEMENTATION II: SYSTEMS

Chapter 14 Design Principles

Chapter 15 Representing Identity

Chapter 16 Access Control Mechanisms

Chapter 17 Information Flow

Chapter 18 Confinement Problem

PART VI: ASSURANCE

Chapter 19 Introduction to Assurance

Chapter 20 Building Systems with Assurance

Chapter 21 Formal Methods

Chapter 22 Evaluating Systems

PART VII: SPECIAL TOPICS

Chapter 23 Malware

Chapter 24 Vulnerability Analysis

Chapter 25 Auditing

Chapter 26 Intrusion Detection

Chapter 27 Attacks and Responses

PART VIII: PRACTICUM

Chapter 28 Network Security

Chapter 29 System Security

Chapter 30 User Security

Chapter 31 Program Security

PART IX: APPENDICES

Appendix A: Lattices

Appendix B: The Extended Euclidean Algorithm

Appendix C: Entropy and Uncertainty

Appendix D: Virtual Machines

Appendix E: Symbolic Logic

Appendix F: The Encryption Standards

Appendix G: Example Academic Security Policy

Appendix H: Programming Rules

About the Author

Matt Bishop is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His main research interest is the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems, including modeling them, building tools to detect vulnerabilities, and ameliorating or eliminating them. He works in the areas of network security, including the study of denial of service attacks and defenses, policy modeling, software assurance testing, resilience, and formal modeling of access control. He was co-chair of the Joint Task Force that developed the Cybersecurity Curricula 2017: Curriculum Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity, released in December 2017. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1984.