Information security science : measuring the vulnerability to data compromises /

Provides the scientific background, analytic methods, and quantitative metrics to allow scientists and engineers with no background in security to estimate vulnerability to a spectrum of information security threats. Explores the physical nature of information security risk, and in so doing exposes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Carl S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Syngress is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • I. Threats, risk and risk assessments
  • Information security threats and risk
  • Modeling information security risk
  • II. Scientific fundamentals
  • Physics and information security
  • Electromagnetic waves
  • III. The compromise of signals
  • Signals of information security
  • The compromise of electromagnetic signals
  • Countermeasures to electromagnetic signal compromises
  • Visual information security
  • Audible information security
  • IV. Information technology risk
  • Information technology risk factors
  • Information technology risk measurements and metrics
  • Special information technology risk measurements and metrics
  • V. The physical security of information assets
  • Physical security controls
  • Data centers : a concentration of information security risk.