Overview

As you read this, your computer is in jeopardy of being hacked and your identity being stolen. Read this book to protect yourselves from this threat. The world's foremost cyber security experts, from Ruby Lee, Ph.D., the Forrest G. Hamrick professor of engineering and Director of the Princeton Architecture Laboratory for Multimedia and Security (PALMS) at Princeton University; to Nick Mankovich, Chief Information Security Officer of Royal Philips Electronics; to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III; to Special Assistant to the President Howard A. Schmidt, share critical practical knowledge on how the cyberspace ecosystem is structured, how it functions, and what we can do to protect it and ourselves from attack and exploitation. The proliferation of social networking and advancement of information technology provide endless benefits in our living and working environments. However, these benefits also bring horrors in various forms of cyber threats and exploitations. Advances in Cyber Security collects the wisdom of cyber security professionals and practitioners from government, academia, and industry across national and international boundaries to provide ways and means to secure and sustain the cyberspace ecosystem. Readers are given a first-hand look at critical intelligence on cybercrime and security-including details of real-life operations. The vast, useful knowledge and experience shared in this essential new volume enables cyber citizens and cyber professionals alike to conceive novel ideas and construct feasible and practical solutions for defending against all kinds of adversaries and attacks. Among the many important topics covered in this collection are building a secure cyberspace ecosystem; public-private partnership to secure cyberspace; operation and law enforcement to protect our cyber citizens and to safeguard our cyber infrastructure; and strategy and policy issues to secure and sustain our cyber ecosystem.

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Captures the thought of cyber security leaders from government, industry, and academia who have practical and hands-on experience in various aspects of cyberspace ecosystems. Simon Y. Liu, Editor-in-Chief of IT Professional magazine

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D. Frank Hsu (Author) D. Frank Hsu, PhD is the Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, former chairman of computer and information science, and former associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He was chair of the Section of Computer and Information Science at the New York Academy of Sciences andfounding editor and editor in chief of the Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN). He holds an MS from the University of Texas at El Paso and a PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dorothy Marinucci (Author) Dorothy Marinucci holds a B.A. and M.A. in international political economy and development from Fordham University. She is Executive Assistant to the President, Fordham University.

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