Handbooks and Encyclopedias

This important reference work is an extensive, up-to-date resource for students who want to investigate the world of cybercrime, or for those seeking further knowledge of specific attacks both domestically and internationally. It covers the most noteworthy attacks while also focusing on the myriad issues that surround cybercrime.

Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students studying cyber warfare, this book highlights the evolution of cyber conflict in modern times through dozens of key primary source documents related to its development and implementation. This meticulously curated primary source collection is designed to offer a broad examination of key documents related to cyber warfare, covering the subject from multiple perspectives.

This Major Reference Work synthesizes the global knowledge on cybercrime from the leading international criminologists and scholars across the social sciences. The constant evolution of technology and our relationship to devices and their misuse creates a complex challenge requiring interdisciplinary knowledge and exploration. This work addresses this need by bringing disparate areas of social science research on cybercrime together.

The book starts with an overview of common threats and the risk management of cybercrime, explaining the 3 key cybersecurity areas: people, process, and technology. Each chapter builds on the previous one to provide a comprehensive overview and is accessible to students and seasoned professionals.

This book presents a unique, step-by-step approach for monitoring, detecting, analyzing and mitigating complex network cyber threats. Featuring comprehensive computer science material relating to a complete network baseline with the characterization hardware and software configuration, the book also identifies potential emerging cyber threats and the vulnerabilities of the network architecture to provide students with a guide to responding to threats.

Covers secure network design and implementation, including authentication, authorization, data and access integrity, network monitoring, and risk assessment. Using such recent high profile cases as Target, Sony, and Home Depot, the book explores information security risks, identifies the common threats organizations face, and presents tactics on how to prioritize the right countermeasures.

Presents the central topics of current research and practice in systems safety and security as it relates to applications within transportation, energy, and the medical sciences. It takes the two topics, systems safety and systems security, as inextricably intertwined and includes coverage of systems architecture, cyber physical systems, tradeoffs between safety, security, and performance, as well as the current methodologies, technologies and implantation practices for system safety and security.

Addresses the knowledge for emerging multidisciplinary research, explores basic and high level concepts, and serves as a manual for industry. Presents security and privacy issues through IoT ecosystems and its implications to the real-world. Explains concepts of IoT related technologies, trends, and future directions related to information security. Examines privacy issues and challenges related to data-intensive technologies in IoT.