Authors:
- Offers a complete and concise view of network security
- Provides in-depth theoretical coverage of recent advancements and practical solutions to network security threats
- Describes the most recent topics on wireless network security
- Introduces a hacker’s view of computer virus research and defense
- Includes a large number of hands-on drills and projects
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Computer Network Security: Theory and Practice introduces to the reader a complete and concise view of network security. It provides in-depth theoretical coverage of recent advancements and practical solutions to network security threats. This book can be used for a one-semester network security course for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, as well as a reference for IT professionals.
Dr. Wang has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell since 2001, Director of its Center for Network and Information Security since 2004,and Chairman of its Department of Computer Science since 2007.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book aims to provide a complete overview of network security and highlight recent advances and practical solutions to security threats. It is … used as a textbook for a course on network security for senior undergraduate and graduate students. … serve as a reference for information technology (IT) professionals. … The book provides a beneficial introduction to network security. … There are numerous tables and diagrams. … I recommend the book as a useful textbook for network security." (S. V. Nagaraj, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2009)
"The book under review provides the reader with an interesting and well-written overview of a variety of aspects of network security. … the book is very interesting and covers current security issues not only from the theoretical but … also from the practical point of view. The book is recommended to all theoreticians and practitioners that would like to have available a comprehensive compendium treating modern network security." (Jozef Wozniak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1167, 2009)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
Jie Wang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer Network Security
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Authors: Jie Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79698-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: Higher Education Press, Beijing and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 400
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Higher Education Press
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Data Structures and Information Theory, Computer Communication Networks