Security Books

This section contains references to a variety of security topics; this list represents only a fraction of the many works available; we’ve tried to mention those likely to be helpful to Oracle sites.

General Computer Security and Risks

Neumann, Peter G. Computer Related Risks. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. (Collected from the Internet RISKS mailing list moderated by Neumann.)

National Research Council. Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age. National Academy Press, 1991.

Pfleeger, Charles P. Security in Computing (2nd edition). Prentice Hall, 1996.

Power, Richard. Current and Future Danger: A CSI Primer on Computer Crime and Information Warfare. Computer Security Institute, 1995.

Computer Viruses

Denning, Peter J. Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms and Viruses. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Ferbrache, David. The Pathology of Computer Viruses. Springer-Verlag, 1992.

Hoffman, Lance J. Rogue Programs: Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.

Network Administration and Security

Bellovin, Steve and Bill Cheswick. Firewalls and Internet Security. Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Chapman, D. Brent, and Elizabeth D. Zwicky. Building Internet Firewalls . O’Reilly & Associates, 1995.

Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration. O’Reilly & Associates, 1992.

Kaufman, Charles, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner. Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World. Prentice Hall, 1995.

Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, ...

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