Security Without Obscurity

Author : Jeff Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498788211
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security without Obscurity written by Jeff Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on public key infrastructure (PKI) seem to focus on asymmetric cryptography, X.509 certificates, certificate authority (CA) hierarchies, or certificate policy (CP), and certificate practice statements. While algorithms, certificates, and theoretical policy are all excellent discussions, the real-world issues for operating a commercial or

Author : Jeffrey James Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781000349566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Without Obscurity written by Jeffrey James Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security without Obscurity: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) complements Jeff Stapleton's three other Security without Obscurity books to provide clear information and answers to the most commonly asked questions about information security (IS) solutions that use or rely on cryptography and key management methods. There are good and bad cryptography, bad ways of using good cryptography, and both good and bad key management methods. Consequently, information security solutions often have common but somewhat unique issues. These common and unique issues are expressed as an FAQ organized by related topic areas. The FAQ in this book can be used as a reference guide to help address such issues. Cybersecurity is based on information technology (IT) that is managed using IS controls, but there is information, misinformation, and disinformation. Information reflects things that are accurate about security standards, models, protocols, algorithms, and products. Misinformation includes misnomers, misunderstandings, and lack of knowledge. Disinformation can occur when marketing claims either misuse or abuse terminology, alluding to things that are inaccurate or subjective. This FAQ provides information and distills misinformation and disinformation about cybersecurity. This book will be useful to security professionals, technology professionals, assessors, auditors, managers, and hopefully even senior management who want a quick, straightforward answer to their questions. It will serve as a quick reference to always have ready on an office shelf. As any good security professional knows, no one can know everything.

Author : Jeff Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000349535
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security without Obscurity written by Jeff Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security without Obscurity: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) complements Jeff Stapleton’s three other Security without Obscurity books to provide clear information and answers to the most commonly asked questions about information security (IS) solutions that use or rely on cryptography and key management methods. There are good and bad cryptography, bad ways of using good cryptography, and both good and bad key management methods. Consequently, information security solutions often have common but somewhat unique issues. These common and unique issues are expressed as an FAQ organized by related topic areas. The FAQ in this book can be used as a reference guide to help address such issues. Cybersecurity is based on information technology (IT) that is managed using IS controls, but there is information, misinformation, and disinformation. Information reflects things that are accurate about security standards, models, protocols, algorithms, and products. Misinformation includes misnomers, misunderstandings, and lack of knowledge. Disinformation can occur when marketing claims either misuse or abuse terminology, alluding to things that are inaccurate or subjective. This FAQ provides information and distills misinformation and disinformation about cybersecurity. This book will be useful to security professionals, technology professionals, assessors, auditors, managers, and hopefully even senior management who want a quick, straightforward answer to their questions. It will serve as a quick reference to always have ready on an office shelf. As any good security professional knows, no one can know everything.

Author : Jeff Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1003845673
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Without Obscurity written by Jeff Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is an operational ecosystem that employs key management, cryptography, information technology (IT), information security (cybersecurity), policy and practices, legal matters (law, regulatory, contractual, privacy), and business rules (processes and procedures). A properly managed PKI requires all of these disparate disciplines to function together – coherently, efficiently, effectually, and successfully. Clearly defined roles and responsibilities, separation of duties, documentation, and communications are critical aspects for a successful operation. PKI is not just about certificates, rather it can be the technical foundation for the elusive "crypto-agility," which is the ability to manage cryptographic transitions. The second quantum revolution has begun, quantum computers are coming, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions will become PKI operation’s business as usual.

Author : J. J. Stapleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Without Obscurity written by J. J. Stapleton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé : Providing a no-nonsense approach and realistic guide to operating a PKI system, this book discusses PKI best practices, as well as bad practices, and includes anonymous case studies scattered throughout that identify each. --

Author : Jeff Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429884885
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security without Obscurity written by Jeff Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information security has a major gap when cryptography is implemented. Cryptographic algorithms are well defined, key management schemes are well known, but the actual deployment is typically overlooked, ignored, or unknown. Cryptography is everywhere. Application and network architectures are typically well-documented but the cryptographic architecture is missing. This book provides a guide to discovering, documenting, and validating cryptographic architectures. Each chapter builds on the next to present information in a sequential process. This approach not only presents the material in a structured manner, it also serves as an ongoing reference guide for future use.

Author : J.J. Stapleton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466592141
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security without Obscurity written by J.J. Stapleton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional view of information security includes the three cornerstones: confidentiality, integrity, and availability; however the author asserts authentication is the third keystone. As the field continues to grow in complexity, novices and professionals need a reliable reference that clearly outlines the essentials. Security without Obscurity: A Guide to Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity fills this need. Rather than focusing on compliance or policies and procedures, this book takes a top-down approach. It shares the author’s knowledge, insights, and observations about information security based on his experience developing dozens of ISO Technical Committee 68 and ANSI accredited X9 standards. Starting with the fundamentals, it provides an understanding of how to approach information security from the bedrock principles of confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. The text delves beyond the typical cryptographic abstracts of encryption and digital signatures as the fundamental security controls to explain how to implement them into applications, policies, and procedures to meet business and compliance requirements. Providing you with a foundation in cryptography, it keeps things simple regarding symmetric versus asymmetric cryptography, and only refers to algorithms in general, without going too deeply into complex mathematics. Presenting comprehensive and in-depth coverage of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, privacy, and key management, this book supplies authoritative insight into the commonalities and differences of various users, providers, and regulators in the U.S. and abroad.

Author : Jeff Stapleton
Publisher : Auerbach Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781498707473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance, Risk, and Compliance for PKI Operations written by Jeff Stapleton and published by Auerbach Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatically, a PKI is an operational system that employs asymmetric cryptography, information technology, operating rules, physical and logical security, and legal matters. Much like any technology, cryptography in general undergoes changes: sometimes evolutionary, sometimes dramatically, and sometimes unknowingly. This book discusses what not do in PKI operations. Providing a no-nonsense approach and multiple case studies, the book is a straightforward, real-world guide to how to successfully operate a PKI system.

Author : Eric Diehl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319426419
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Laws for Security written by Eric Diehl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author presents ten key laws governing information security. He addresses topics such as attacks, vulnerabilities, threats, designing security, identifying key IP assets, authentication, and social engineering. The informal style draws on his experience in the area of video protection and DRM, while the text is supplemented with introductions to the core formal technical ideas. It will be of interest to professionals and researchers engaged with information security.

Author : Edward Amoroso
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123918677
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Attacks written by Edward Amoroso and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Attacks, Student Edition, offers a technical, architectural, and management approach to solving the problems of protecting national infrastructure. This approach includes controversial themes such as the deliberate use of deception to trap intruders. This volume thus serves as an attractive framework for a new national strategy for cyber security. A specific set of criteria requirements allows any organization, such as a government agency, to integrate the principles into their local environment. In this edition, each principle is presented as a separate security strategy and illustrated with compelling examples. The book adds 50-75 pages of new material aimed specifically at enhancing the student experience and making it more attractive for instructors teaching courses such as cyber security, information security, digital security, national security, intelligence studies, technology and infrastructure protection. It now also features case studies illustrating actual implementation scenarios of the principles and requirements discussed in the text, along with a host of new pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, learning checklists, and a 2-color interior. Furthermore, a new and complete ancillary package includes test bank, lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, case study questions, and more. This text is intended for security practitioners and military personnel as well as for students wishing to become security engineers, network operators, software designers, technology managers, application developers, etc. Provides case studies focusing on cyber security challenges and solutions to display how theory, research, and methods, apply to real-life challenges Utilizes, end-of-chapter case problems that take chapter content and relate it to real security situations and issues Includes instructor slides for each chapter as well as an instructor’s manual with sample syllabi and test bank