Summary

Based on related courses and research on the cyber environment in Europe, the United States, and Asia, Cyberspace and Cybersecuritysupplies complete coverage of cyberspace and cybersecurity. It not only emphasizes technologies but also pays close attention to human factors and organizational perspectives.

Detailing guidelines for quantifying and measuring vulnerabilities, the book also explains how to avoid these vulnerabilities through secure coding. It covers organizational-related vulnerabilities, including access authorization, user authentication, and human factors in information security. Providing readers with the understanding required to build a secure enterprise, block intrusions, and handle delicate legal and ethical issues, the text:

Explaining how to secure a computer against malware and cyber attacks, the text's wide-ranging coverage includes security analyzers, firewalls, antivirus software, file shredding, file encryption, and anti-loggers. It reviews international and U.S. federal laws and legal initiatives aimed at providing a legal infrastructure for what transpires over the Internet. The book concludes by examining the role of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in our country's cyber preparedness.

Exercises with solutions, updated references, electronic presentations, evaluation criteria for projects, guidelines to project preparations, and teaching suggestions are available upon qualified course adoption.

Choice Review

In the second edition of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity, Kostopoulos (Univ. of Maryland University College) provides a robust primer on the varied aspects of cyberspace and cybersecurity in a highly readable format suitable for laypeople and students. Despite the complexities of the topic, Kostopoulos succeeds in providing a text for "non-cybersecurity techies" without sacrificing content. He begins by examining the vulnerabilities in information systems from the triangular view of people, hardware, and software before offering information on securing and defending these systems. Following this is an overview of related topics, including international and US cybersecurity law, war and homeland security, digital currencies, and cybercrime. Topics often overlooked in preliminary textbooks on cybersecurity, such as human factors and cyber ethics, are also addressed. The second edition is updated throughout with a new passage on encryption key management; updates to many topics, including mobile telephony and ransomware defense; and a new, much-needed chapter on digital currencies. Well organized and concise with complete references, this is an essential read for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of cybersecurity. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, technical program students, and professionals. --Kelly Marie Robinson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University