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- Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics and Motivations of the Black-Hat Community
- Macintosh Internet Security: A Guide to Securing Your Mac on the Internet
- Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as an Expert Technical Witness
- Wireless Security and Privacy: Best Practices and Design Techniques
- Securing Business Information: Strategies to Protect the Enterprise and Its Network
- Inside Java 2 Platform Security: Architecture, Api Design and Implementation
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- Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses: How to Avoid Them, How to Get Rid of Them, and How to Get Help
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- The Design and Verification of a Cryptographic Security Architecture
- Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Springer Professional Computing S.)
- Communications and Multimedia Security: Proceedings of the IFIP TC6, TC11 and Austrian Computer Society Joint Working Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, 1995
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B2B and Beyond: New Business Models Built on Trust
Harry B. Demaio
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A groundbreaking guide to forging trusting, mutually beneficial B2B relationships
Companies that have entered into B2B alliances may simultaneously be one and another's customers, suppliers, allies, and competitors. But in today's turbo-charged e-environment, how do companies take full advantage of the many benefits of B2B alliances while avoiding the obvious dangers of allowing potential competitors intimate access to their value chains? In this groundbreaking book Harry DeMaio, Director of Deloitte & Touche's renowned Enterprise Risk Service Practice, answers that question with the revolutionary concept of E-Trust, a proven strategy based on fostering business relationships based on mutual self-interest and trust. Writing for managers and corporate decision-makers, DeMaio explains the current state of B2B in an approachable, entertaining fashion, making difficult concepts easy to grasp. He demonstrates the critical role that trust, privacy, and security issues play in the B2B environment and provides guidance on how companies in various industries engaged in B2B relationships must address their varying security and privacy needs.
Harry DeMaio (Cincinatti, OH) is Director of Deloitte & Touche's Enterprise Risk Service Practice.
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Terrific primer on a complicated subject.......2002-03-15
I just finished reading this book and recommend it enthusiastically to anybody interested in how B2Bs and extended enterprises must work in the future. The book is broken down into 3 parts: Part 1 explains how B2Bs interact and how trust plays a critical role, Part 2 discusses the concept of e-Trust and business processes by industry, and Part 3 discusses e-infrastructure, security, and controls on a more technical level. Overall, the author manages to provide clear and comprehensive coverage on an exremely challenging, constantly evolving subject.
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Trust in Cyberspace
National Research Council (U. S.)
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AWESOME!.......1999-09-10
Schneider's superb skills as an editor make "Trust in Cyberspace" a joy to read. I particularly liked the part about system architecture - very exciting stuff. This book should be on every CIO's shelf! I don't want to spoil the ending, but WOW it was something else!
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Trust in E-services: Technologies, Practices and Challenges
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ASIN: 159904207X
Release Date: 2007-01-30 |
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The tremendous growth of the Internet is successfully making a variety of e-services a part of citizens everyday life. E-services such as: Web-banking, Web shopping, e-learning, e-healthcare, and e-government, are available in most countries around the world. Trust in E-Services: Technologies, Practices and Challenges provides an overview of e-service trust issues, including: definitions, constructs, and relationships with other research topics such as security, privacy, reputation, and risk. Trust in E-Services: Technologies, Practices and Challenges introduces and discusses the existing trust platforms and management tools such as trust evaluation, reasoning approaches, and mechanisms for e-services. This book also offers contributions from researchers and practitioners with real-life experience and practice on how to build a trust environment for e-government services.
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Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce
L. Jean Camp
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People who complain about the weightlessness of "virtual" money haven't looked closely enough at "real" money. While it's true that the Internet has no equivalent of the Federal Reserve--yet--it's also true that every economy ever devised has relied on mutual trust. In Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce, Harvard public-policy researcher L. Jean Camp looks at the evolving Net economy as just another means of exchanging goods and services--an engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the assumptions and technology underlying networked business.
Camp briefs the reader on the basics of the Internet and money itself before launching into a deep consideration of their interactions. Since much of the essential infrastructure (money standards, privacy and security law, and fraud prevention, for example) is currently embryonic, much of what Camp has to say is prescriptive--though she is careful not to let her own values intrude far into her writing.
In discussing privacy, for example, she examines several scenarios advocated by different interest groups, from system designers to law enforcement, and shows how each would develop if followed through; since compromise is inevitable, she suggests the limits of the privacy we will likely find in the future.
The final chapter, "The Coming Collapse in Internet Commerce," warns that any money system is inherently fragile and that we must expect catastrophic failure, perhaps more than once, before we iron out the more obvious wrinkles in the new economy. After that, it all depends on trust. --Rob Lightner
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As Internet-based commerce becomes commonplace, it is important that we examine the systems used for these financial transactions. Underlying each system is a set of assumptions, particularly about trust and risk. To evaluate systems, and thus to determine one's own risks, requires an understanding of the dimensions of trust: security, privacy, and reliability.
In this book Jean Camp focuses on two major yet frequently overlooked issues in the design of Internet commerce systems--trust and risk. Trust and risk are closely linked. The level of risk can be determined by looking at who trusts whom in Internet commerce transactions. Who will pay, in terms of money and data, if trust is misplaced? When the inevitable early failures occur, who will be at risk? Who is "liable" when there is a trusted third party? Why is it necessary to trust this party? What exactly is this party trusted to do? To answer such questions requires an understanding of security, record-keeping, privacy, and reliability.
The author's goal is twofold: first, to provide information on trust and risk to businesses that are developing electronic commerce systems; and second, to help consumers understand the risks in using the Internet for purchases and show them how to protect themselves. Rather than propose a single model of an Internet commerce system, the author provides the information and insights needed by merchants and consumers as they develop the Internet for commerce.
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Great book!.......2000-05-17
As both the manager of a small business and a frequent on-line purchaser, I found this book really helpful in understanding the technologies behind the websites I use --- and what they mean for risk in my transactions.
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- A good Register with a good Historical
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The Global Internet Trust Register: 1999 edition
Ross Anderson , Bruno Crispo , Jong-Hyeon Lee , Charalampos Manifavas , Vaclav Matyas , and Fabien Petitcolas
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The development of electronic commerce and other applications on the Internet is held up by concerns about security. Cryptography--the science of codes and ciphers--will be a significant part of the solution, but one of the hardest problems is enabling users to find out which cryptographic key belongs to whom.
The main things that can go wrong with cryptography are similar to those that can go wrong with a signature stamp. A stamp can be stolen or counterfeit; or it may not belong to the person one thought it did. The first two risks can be controlled largely by technical measures. The third risk is the hard one, and the one that this book helps to solve.
Many people who use cryptographic services on the Internet have had their keys certified by one or more of about a thousand important keys. The pioneers of cryptography hoped that these keys would in turn be certified by the United Nations or by each other, or listed in the phone book. For a variety of political and competitive reasons, this has not happened. The result is chaos, and the situation is bound to get worse as both companies and governments try to stake out claims in cyberspace.
The primary aim of this book is to cut through the chaos by publishing the thousand or so important keys in paper form, as a kind of global phone book. The secondary aim is political: By printing these keys on paper, we can use established legal protections to limit government interference.
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A good Register with a good Historical.......2000-06-29
The Glogal Internet Trust Register, as the name says, has lots of registers of public keys, but besides it, there is a historical which describe the attemps of Government to licence the cryptography and other proposes. It explain the certification authority(CA) even for non-technical people, explain what is 'The Global Internet Trust Register' and other things related with CA. The reason that I liked this book is as I already said, the registers and the historical part, which a learned a lot.
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Who do you trust?(Internet and network security)(Brief Article): An article from: Detroiter
Eric Eder
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Title: Who do you trust?(Internet and network security)(Brief Article)
Author: Eric Eder
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Detroiter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Detroit Regional Chamber
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Issue: 5
Page: 26
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- Breaks new ground in the areas of trust and ecommerce
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The Role of Trust on the Internet: The Development of an Online Trust Creation Model for eTravel Agents (International Economics)
Sabine Schaffer
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Breaks new ground in the areas of trust and ecommerce.......2006-08-31
Dr. Schaffer breaks new ground in the areas of trust and ecommerce with her study of e-travel agents. Her models, which are based on the Harvard Business School's Mind of Market research, bring new measurement techniques and applications to one of the hardest emotions to measure on the web - trust. Dr. Schaffer, a McKinsey consultant, whose research background includes degrees from Harvard, the University of Innsbruck and ESC Rouen as well as work with L'Oreal and Daniel Swarovski brings a unique view to how consumers view and relate to the web. Her original research was one of the first applications of ZMET (Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique) to the Internet - and her conclusions on how to generate trust on the Internet will be surprising to many.
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Increasing numbers of people are turning to the Internet for health advice despite reports that sites vary in terms of their quality. How do they decide whether or not to trust the advice they find online? A staged model of trust development is proposed and tested here in a longitudinal study in which fifteen women faced with decisions concerning the menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were observed while searching the Internet for information and advice over four consecutive weeks and then kept diaries over a six-month follow-up period. The women were all resident in the North-East of England and were recruited through advertisements in the local media. The study provided general support for a three-stage model of trust in which participants firstly engaged in rapid heuristic processing of information, efficiently sifting and rejecting general sales sites and portals but sometimes rejecting high-quality content because of poor design. Well-designed sites were then effectively interrogated for credible and personalized content before being designated trustworthy. The women appeared to act much like 'scientists' using web material to generate and test hypotheses and theories about HRT, although their capacity to deal with certain forms of risk information was limited. They subsequently reported integrating online advice with offline advice from friends, family and physicians in order to be fully confident in their final decisions. Women felt that the Internet influenced their decision-making and improved communications with physicians. Personalized stories from like-minded others improved trust perceptions. Despite the use of the Internet the physician was still seen as the primary source of information and advice.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Property Management, published by Institute of Real Estate Management on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2202 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Answering the Call of the WILD WEB.(internet)
Author: Robert Chol
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Date: March 1, 2001
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Volume: 66
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Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security
Matt Curtin , and Peter G. Neumann
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Suitable for the IP manager or developer seeking to improve Web privacy and security, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security provides an intriguing, though at times somewhat theoretical, guide to the issues surrounding privacy today.
Interestingly, this book straddles an expert-eye, theoretical overview of what privacy is and a more practical view of how it is often undermined on the Internet today. Early sections cover basic terms and concepts of privacy at a fairly high level. Mixing in sometimes erudite commentary (and an occasional rant), the author's expert-level view does a good job of explaining what privacy is and the larger principles used to protect it. From anonymity to "verinymity" (where sites know who you are), Curtin makes a good case that anonymity is often eventually undermined on today's Web sites. A good section early in the book outlines how a potential attacker might attack a hypothetical Web site for security holes. (We never see the attack carried out, perhaps because it would be irresponsible to do so, but this material establishes Curtin's expertise for the reader.)
Though the early sections largely avoid specific standards and real Internet software, the book soon delves into the nuts and bolts of the Web, for example HTTP, HTML, URLs, and cookies, with an eye to privacy. For most readers, the most fascinating sections of this text will be the author's five case studies on real privacy problems with some of today's leading Web sites and vendors (including Netscape and DoubleClick). He shows how certain features--like cookies--can undermine privacy (or even the ability to "opt out" successfully). A follow-up chapter cements the argument that if Web sites collect "anonymous" browsing behavior, it is all too easy to connect users' real identities to their supposedly anonymous profiles later on, putting privacy in jeopardy. Finally, the author makes a good argument that protecting privacy is good business sense.
The book concludes with more practical advice on implementing good security practices, including an excellent discussion of firewalls, DMZs, including their limitations, and a checklist for beefing up security in your organization. The text closes with a final case study of a hypothetical Web site (which serves up content from third parties) that arguably "does it right" regarding privacy, based on the author's earlier discussion.
While the mix of theoretical and practical here will not suit everyone, there's little doubt that the author's in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding privacy today can help your organization do better with privacy and security. While this title will not help you configure Internet Information Server, for instance, it will help you plan high-level strategies for improved security, as well as show you why protecting user and organizational privacy makes good business sense. --Richard Dragan
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Although the harrowing number of Internet-based attacks in recent years has elevated the importance of maintaining secure electronic networks, many developers continue to employ passive security administration strategies, addressing issues by using patches in a non-systematic fashion. This counterproductive strategy can be largely attributed to a lack of knowledge regarding the general concepts required to effectively prevent the attack and potential compromise of networked systems.
Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security is an indispensable resource for system administrators and application developers, providing a means to understand, create, and maintain secure Internet systems. Curtin's instructional approach facilitates a comprehensive understanding of online security by separating the core material into three sections:
- Understanding Security and Privacy introduces attack models, general privacy theory and policy, online privacy concepts, and provides a synopsis of the mechanics of threats to privacy.
- Prevention delves into secure design principles and deployment environments, closing with several case studies of major security problems uncovered by the author himself.
- The Cure investigates the mechanics of identifying and repairing flawed security design techniques before they are incorporated into the final product. Discussion regarding the failure of "Opt-Out" systems to protect privacy is also included in this section.
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Although the harrowing number of Internet-based attacks in recent years has elevated the importance of maintaining secure electronic networks, many developers continue to employ passive security administration strategies, addressing issues by using patches in a non-systematic fashion. This counterproductive strategy can be largely attributed to a lack of knowledge regarding the general concepts required to effectively prevent the attack and potential compromise of networked systems.
Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security is an indispensable resource for system administrators and application developers, providing a means to understand, create, and maintain secure Internet systems. Curtin's instructional approach facilitates a comprehensive understanding of online security by separating the core material into three sections:
- Understanding Security and Privacy introduces attack models, general privacy theory and policy, online privacy concepts, and provides a synopsis of the mechanics of threats to privacy.
- Prevention delves into secure design principles and deployment environments, closing with several case studies of major security problems uncovered by the author himself.
- The Cure investigates the mechanics of identifying and repairing flawed security design techniques before they are incorporated into the final product. Discussion regarding the failure of "Opt-Out" systems to protect privacy is also included in this section.
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case studies are good expositions.......2005-03-24
Written in 2002 and with scarcely two years passing, Curtin's message is more timely this year. He warned of the perils of malware and of cracker attacks on corporate databases. Especially by social engineering.
He presents several case studies of insecure privacy applications. He analyzed the commercially deployed systems of Alexa, DoubleClick and others. Showing how cookies and server side bugs could lead to users being tracked. In some cases, as they perused many different websites that reported their activities to a central site. Other books have talked about how cookies could be misused in this way. But Curtin's analysis goes beyond a typical generic treatment and can be more instructive to you.
The malware of 2002 that he warned of has increased in sophistication and danger. No sign of abatement, so keeping the book's ideas in mind is a good idea.
Making a dry subject palatable.......2002-07-11
Security and privacy are not "sexy" subjects and I was ready for a dry dissertation but this book was anything but.
Although the subject matter is serious and is treated seriously, Curtin has a light and deft touch that make the book a pleasure to read.
And while this book's target audience is programmers responsible for dealing with the issues of Privacy and Security, I would recommend this book to a much wider audience. Every top manager of a company that has a web site should read this book so they can understand how Online Privacy and Security could affect them and so they can ask the questions that someone needs to be asking the folks who are running and developing websites.
I would also recommend the internet savvy who are curious about these two buzzwords because this book will provide them a much better understanding of the stories that have and will appear in the news related to privacy and security. The real world examples are ones that we all can relate to.
Really Good book about privacy.......2002-05-21
Privacy means radically different things to different people as it is an abstract and often elusive term that is often difficult to effectively define.
In a nutshell, privacy is the ability of an individual or organization to decide whether, when, and to whom personal or organizational information is released.
While defining privacy is difficult, ensuring on-line privacy is even more challenging. Those required to ensure that their corporate systems and web sites are secure against prying hackers will find Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security to be an important resource.
Curtain writes in an entertaining and easy to read style; especially when he introduces topics such as attack models, privacy concepts, and threats.
The book suggests prevention mechanisms and includes a few real-world case studies. If you have anything to do with electronic privacy, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security is a great book to read.
Definitive work.......2002-05-12
This book examines the social, legal and technical issues surrounding online privacy. Not only is the consumer side of privacy examined, but the business side from a marketing point of view is also discussed to present a balanced view of the key issues from both sides of the equation.
Mr. Curtin is an expert in privacy and security issues, as well as cryptography and security technology. The approach he takes in the book is to explain both the theory and concepts of privacy in social and legal contexts, and to examine the threats and exposures.
From there he leads you through the design of a solution that starts with principles, then a thorough examination of the underlying online technologies and how they work for and against you. An obvious example of one technical element that works for and against is the 'cookie' which can provide a major convenience (it remembers you and your preferences) and an invasion of your privacy (it remembers you and your preferences - and can also 'stalk' you in a manner of speaking). How to best balance the strengths and weaknesses of not only the technology, but the business imperatives driving commercial uses of the internet are addressed.
My personal vuiew is that this book blends the best of Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies and Richard Hunter's World Without Secrets. Schneier's book covered the full range of security issues, social and technical. Hunter's book is more focused on social aspects of privacy. What sets this book apart from those two are the focus on privacy and the multiple contexts in which the book addresses it: social, legal and technical. If the author keeps this book up to date it is destined to become a classic. The challenge is to remain abrest of emerging legal issues and technical breakthroughs - both of which are inevitable.
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