Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach

This e book relies on the creator's 18 years of educating and analysis expertise. It covers the elemental rules in Computer and Internet safety, together with software program safety, {hardware} safety, community safety, net safety, and cryptography.  Its objective is to assist readers perceive how numerous assaults work, what their elementary causes are, the best way to defend in opposition to them, and the way numerous protection mechanisms work. The e book can be utilized as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate programs. Over 80 universities and schools adopted the primary version of this e book throughout the first 15 months because it was printed in late 2017.

The creator strongly believes in "learning by doing", so the e book takes a hands-on method. For every safety precept, the e book makes use of a collection of hands-on actions to assist clarify the precept; readers can contact, play with, and experiment with the precept, as a substitute of simply studying about it. For occasion, if a safety precept includes an assault, the e book guides readers to truly launch the assault (in a contained setting). In some circumstances, if a precept includes a safety mechanism, equivalent to firewall or Virtual Private Network (VPN), the e book guides readers to implement a mini-version of such a mechanism (e.g., mini-firewall or mini-VPN). Readers can be taught higher from such hands-on actions.

The hands-on actions are based mostly on the creator's extensively adopted SEED Labs, which have been utilized by over 1000 institutes in additional than 65 nations.