Information Security: Principles and Practices, Second Edition

Preface

When teaching a complex and ever-changing discipline such as information security, students are best served by beginning with a high-level understanding of the subject before they tackle the details. A solid grasp of the objectives, terminology, principles, and frameworks will help them understand how to place issues in a proper context for determining working solutions. That is the goal of this text: to introduce students to the most important topics of information security and pique their interest to learn more.

The body of knowledge (as it is called in the IT security industry) is vast, deep, and, at times, baffling. Solutions are not always straightforward because the problems they address are rarely intuitive. No cookbook or universal ...