Securing the Information Infrastructure

This volume discusses security protocols and practices for the current information infrastructure. It surveys issues such as moral and ethical education and security, privacy, and anonymity and their effects on the creation of an ethical framework for decision making, and techniques for a secure infrastructure. These relate to software reliability and risk, threats and vulnerabilities, policies and risk analysis and management, access control and authentication, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and biometrics. Finally, it covers the legal system and digital evidence in computer crime, digital crime investigations and forensics, and writing reports. Joseph M. Kizza teaches computer science at the U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Florence M. Kizza is an assistant editor at The Greentree Gazette Magazine in Florida. CyberTech Publishing is an imprint of Idea Group Publishing. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)