Matt Bishop is an author of books with the thickness of the page as much as 784 (Hardcover). In English the book is published by Addison Wesley Professional, around November 2004.
From one source that I got, here are descriptions of the contents of the book Introduction to Computer Security.
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Operational issues, cost-benefit and risk analyses, legal and human factors
- Planning and implementing effective access control
- Defining security, confidentiality, and integrity policies
- Using cryptography and public-key systems, and recognizing their limits
- Understanding and using authentication: from passwords to biometrics
- Security design principles: least-privilege, fail-safe defaults, open design, economy of mechanism, and more
- Controlling information flow through systems and networks
- Assuring security throughout the system lifecycle
- Malicious logic: Trojan horses, viruses, boot sector and executable infectors, rabbits, bacteria, logic bombs--and defenses against them
- Vulnerability analysis, penetration studies, auditing, and intrusion detection and prevention
For those of you who would like to buy this book, visit your nearest book store or shopping online. The choice is yours.
I end this book reviews by quoting a comment from one who has read the book, he is the Andrew G. Manuele. the following commentary: " This book got me through my cyber security class. The read is a little intense so amateur Cybersecs might want to find something a little easier."
