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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beyond Fear
    sub title: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
  name:
    name part: Schneier, Bruce.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 296 p. online resource.
  abstract: Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe. Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday. How well though, do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion. With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits. Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best come to one's own conclus…
  table of contents: Sensible Security -- All Security Involves Trade-offs -- Security Trade-offs Are Subjective -- Security Trade-offs Depend on Power and Agenda -- How Security Works -- Systems and How They Fail -- Knowing the Attackers -- Attackers Never Change Their Tunes, Just Their Instruments -- Technology Creates Security Imbalances -- Security Is a Weakest-Link Problem -- Brittleness Makes for Bad Security -- Security Revolves Around People -- Detection Works Where Prevention Fails -- Detection Is Useless Without Response -- Identification, Authentication, and Authorization -- All Countermeasures Have Some Value, But No Countermeasure Is Perfect -- Fighting Terrorism -- The Game of Security -- Negotiating for Security -- Security Demystified.
  note: by Bruce Schneier.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Data encryption (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Coding theory
  subject:
    topic: System safety
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Security Science and Technology
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Medicine and Health
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Data Encryption
  subject:
    topic: Coding and Information Theory
  classification: TA169.7
  classification: T55-55.3
  classification: 621.389
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387217123
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97547
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204145114.0
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