Research Catalog

Title

Network security essentials : applications and standards / William Stallings.

Author

Stallings, William.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2007.

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Details

Description

xvi, 413 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Network Security Essentials, Third Edition is a thorough, up-to-date introduction to the deterrence, prevention, detection, and correction of security violations involving information delivery across networks and the Internet. William Stallings presents a coherent framework for understanding network security, then systematically introduces the field's essential concepts and techniques."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Computer networks > Security measures
• Computer security

Note

• Previous ed.: 2003.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-401) and index

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-401) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1.1 Security Trends 4 -- 1.2 The OSI Security Architecture 6 -- 1.3 Security Attacks 7 -- 1.4 Security Services 11 -- 1.5 Security Mechanisms 14 -- 1.6 A Model for Internetwork Security 17 -- 1.7 Internet Standards the Internet Society 19 -- 1.8 Outline of This Book 22 -- Part 1 Cryptography 26 -- Chapter 2 Symmetric Encryption and Message Confidentiality 28 -- 2.1 Symmetric Encryption Principles 29 -- 2.2 Symmetric Block Encryption Algorithms 35 -- 2.3 Stream Ciphers and RC4 43 -- 2.4 Cipher Block Modes of Operation 46 -- 2.5 Location of Encryption Devices 51 -- 2.6 Key Distribution 52 -- Chapter 3 Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication 59 -- 3.1 Approaches to Message Authentication 60 -- 3.2 Secure Hash Functions and HMAC 64 -- 3.3 Public Key Cryptography Principles 74 -- 3.4 Public-Key Cryptography Algorithms 78 -- 3.5 Digital Signatures 85 -- 3.6 Key Management 85 -- Part 2 Network Security Applications 92 -- Chapter 4 Authentication Applications 94 -- 4.1 Kerberos 95 -- 4.2 X.509 Directory Authentication Service 113 -- 4.3 Public Key Infrastructure 122 -- 4.4 Recommended Reading and Web Sites 124 -- Appendix 4A Kerberos Encryption Techniques 127 -- Chapter 5 Electronic Mail Security 130 -- 5.1 Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) 132 -- 5.2 S/MIME 151 -- Appendix 5A Data Compression Using ZIP 169 -- Appendix 5B Radix-64 Conversion 172 -- Appendix 5C PGP Random Number Generation 173 -- Chapter 6 IP Security 177 -- 6.1 IP Security Overview 179 -- 6.2 IP Security Architecture 181 -- 6.3 Authentication Header 187 -- 6.4 Encapsulating Security Payload 192 -- 6.5 Combining Security Associations 197 -- 6.6 Key Management 200 -- Appendix 6A Internetworking and Internet Protocols 212 -- Chapter 7 Web Security 221 -- 7.1 Web Security Requirements 222 -- 7.2 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 225 -- 7.3 Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) 243 -- Chapter 8 Network Management Security 257 -- 8.1 Basic Concepts of SNMP 258 -- 8.2 SNMPv1 Community Facility 266 -- 8.3 SNMPv3 269 -- Part 3 System Security 297 -- Chapter 9 Intruders 299 -- 9.1 Intruders 301 -- 9.2 Intrusion Detection 304 -- 9.3 Password Management 316 -- 9.4 Recommended Reading and Web Sites 325 -- Appendix 9A The Base-Rate Fallacy 328 -- Chapter 10 Malicious Software 332 -- 10.1 Viruses and Related Threats 333 -- 10.2 Virus Countermeasures 344 -- 10.3 Distributed Denial of Service Attacks 348 -- Chapter 11 Firewalls 355 -- 11.1 Firewall Design Principles 356 -- 11.2 Trusted Systems 368 -- 11.3 Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation 374 -- Appendix A Some Aspects of Number Theory 381 -- A.1 Prime and Relatively Prime Numbers 382 -- A.2 Modular Arithmetic 384 -- Appendix B Projects for Teaching Network Security 386 -- B.1 Research Projects 387 -- B.2 Programming Projects 388 -- B.3 Laboratory Exercises 388 -- B.4 Writing Assignments 388 -- B.5 Reading/Report Assignments 389.

ISBN

• 0132380331 (pbk.)
• 9780132380331 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library