“Security Engineering” now free
Just a quick post to note that the highly praised book Security Engineering by Ross Anderson is now available as a free download in PDF form. Anderson is professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge.
This is essential reading for everyone who designs and builds security systems or has to manage them. Though it was written by an academic, it’s an easy read with plenty of real world examples and historical background to illustrate and reenforce the issues presented. Highly recommended.
By the way, for those at the management level I also highly recommend Bruce Schneier’s excellent Secrets and Lies. It’s not available for free, but well worth the price. It’s the best guide I know targeted at the non-expert that illustrates what information security is really all about.
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