Book description
Presenting invaluable advice from the world?s most famous computer
security expert, this intensely readable collection features some of the
most insightful and informative coverage of the strengths and weaknesses
of computer security and the price people pay -- figuratively and
literally -- when security fails. Discussing the issues surrounding
things such as airplanes, passports, voting machines, ID cards, cameras,
passwords, Internet banking, sporting events, computers, and castles,
this book is a must-read for anyone who values security at any level --
business, technical, or personal.
Bruce Schneier has been called the security industry's equivalent of
a rock star. An internationally renowned security technologist, he is
best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and
commentator. The bestselling author of eight books, including Applied
Cryptography and Secrets and Lies, both published by Wiley, and Beyond
Fear, published by Springer-Verlag, he has written articles and
commentary that have appeared in numerous prominent publications and
has testified before Congress on security issues. Schneier maintains
the extremely popular "Schneier on Security" blog (www.
schneier. com/blog).
