Addison-Wesley Professional is featuring new titles at RSA 2008, the information security forum being held April 7-11 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, including The New School of Information Security, Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers, Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses and dotCrime Manifesto.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON) April 7, 2008 --
Addison-Wesley Professional is featuring new titles at RSA 2008, the
information security forum being held April 7-11 at San Francisco’s
Moscone Center, including The
New School of Information
Security, Software
Security
Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers, Crimeware:
Understanding New Attacks and Defenses and dotCrime
Manifesto.
News Facts
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The New School of Information Security, by Adam Shostack and
Andrew Stewart, focuses on a future vision for the security industry,
centering on what threats companies now face and how they can
best face them. The book discusses why security is failing, provides a
pragmatic approach to spending, and helps organizations evaluate and
structure their security programs. For more information, visit www.informit.com/title/9780321502780.
The book is also Safari Books Online-enabled and available at http://safari.informit.com/9780321502780.
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The forthcoming Software Security Engineering provides readers
with a set of sound practices they can adopt selectively to increase
the security and dependability of software, both during its
development and its operation. For more information, visit www.informit.com/title/9780321509178.
Author Gary McGraw will be speaking at the track session Electronic
Voting: The Politics of Broken Systems (Thursday morning at 10:40 in
Green Room 103).
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Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses helps
security professionals, technical managers, students, and researchers
understand and prevent specific crimeware threats. Security experts
Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan have brought together chapter
contributors who are among the best and the brightest in the security
industry. For additional information, visit www.informit.com/title/9780321501950.
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The recently released dotCrime Manifesto, written by Dr.
Phillip Hallam-Baker, begins with a revealing new look at the
challenge of Internet crime– and a
surprising look at today’s Internet
criminals. The book examines why the Internet’s
lack of accountability makes it so vulnerable, and how this can be
fixed – technically, politically, and
culturally. For more information, visit www.informit.com/title/9780321503589.
This book is also Safari Books Online-enabled available at http://safari.informit.com/9780321503589.
Author Hallam-Baker will be providing two track sessions, including
Security Usability: The New Challenge (Tuesday, April 08 at 4:10 PM,
Red Room 309) and Extended Validation: Raising the Bar for Internet
Trust (Thursday, April 10 at 9:10 AM, Red Room 308).
Author Bios
Adam
Shostack, co-author of The New School of Information Security,
is part of Microsoft’s Security
Development Lifecycle strategy team, where he is responsible for
security design analysis techniques. Before Microsoft, Adam was involved
in a number of successful start-ups focused on vulnerability scanning,
privacy, and program analysis. He helped found the CVE, International
Financial Cryptography association, and the Privacy Enhancing
Technologies workshop. He has been a technical advisor to companies
including Counterpane Internet Security and Debix.
Andrew
Stewart, co-author of The New School of Information Security,
is a Vice President at a US-based investment bank. His work on
information security topics has been published in journals such as
Computers & Security and Information Security Bulletin. His homepage is
homepage.mac.com/andrew_j_stewart
Gary
McGraw, co-author of the upcoming book Software
Security Engineering, is the CTO of Cigital, Inc., a software
security and quality consulting firm with headquarters in the
Washington, D.C., area. He is a globally recognized authority on
software security and the author of six best selling books on this
topic. The latest is Exploiting Online Games (Addison-Wesley,
2008). His other titles include Java Security, Building Secure
Software, Exploiting Software, and Software Security;
and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. McGraw
has also written more than ninety peer-reviewed scientific publications,
authors a monthly security column for darkreading.com, and is frequently
quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top
business and IT executives, Gary is on the Advisory Boards of Fortify
Software and Raven White. He serves on the Dean’s
Advisory Council for the School of Informatics at Indiana University.
Gary is an IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member and produces
the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy
magazine.
Markus
Jakobsson, Ph.D.
co-author of Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses,
is currently principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, and an
adjunct associate professor at Indiana University. He has previously
held positions as principal research scientist at RSA Laboratories,
adjunct associate professor at New York University, and was a member of
the technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He studies the human factor of
security and cryptographic protocols, with a special focus on privacy.
Markus has co-authored more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles and is
a co-inventor of more than 50 patents and patents pending.
Zulfikar
Ramzan, Ph.D. co-author of Crimeware: Understanding New
Attacks and Defenses, is currently a senior principal researcher
with Symantec Security Response. He focuses on improving the security of
the online experience, including understanding threats like phishing,
online fraud, malicious client-side software, and web security. In
general, Zulfikar’s professional interests
span the theoretical and practical aspects of information security and
cryptography. He is a frequent speaker on these issues and has
coauthored more than 50 technical articles and one book.
Dr.
Phillip Hallam-Baker has been at the center of the development
of the World Wide Web, electronic commerce, and Internet security for
more than a decade. A member of the CERN team that created the original
Web specifications, his list of design credits has few rivals and
includes substantial contributions to the design of HTTP, the core
protocol of the World Wide Web. A frequent speaker at international
conferences with more than 100 appearances over the past four years and
numerous media interviews, Hallam-Baker is known for his passionate
advocacy of what he calls technology for real people. His mission
is to democratize technology, making technology serve the needs of the
ordinary person rather than interest technologists or an artificial
business model. The dotCrime Manifesto serves this mission by
reaching out beyond the field of network security specialists to provide
a firsthand, accessible account of the measures needed to control
Internet crime.
OnSecurity
Video Podcasts by author Gary McGraw
All OnSecurity Podcasts also available at iTunes.
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