Beautiful Security

Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.

Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include:

• The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on their prey
• How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help or hurt our online security
• How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security to a higher level
• The real, little-publicized history of PGP

This book includes contributions from:

• Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
• Jim Stickley
• Elizabeth Nichols
• Chenxi Wang
• Ed Bellis
• Ben Edelman
• Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas
• Kathy Wang
• Mark Curphey
• John McManus
• James Routh
• Randy V. Sabett
• Anton Chuvakin
• Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy
• Peter Wayner
• Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco

All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

The luminaries and pioneers of network security take readers beyond the headlines, hype, and hearsay to provide insight into why new measures are being undertaken and how they work.

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in free software and open source technologies. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux, and the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer. His modest programming and system administration skills are mostly self-taught.

John Viega, Founder and Chief Scientist of Secure Software (www.securesoftware.com), is a well-known security expert, and coauthor of Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley) and Network Security with OpenSSL (O'Reilly). John is responsible for numerous software security tools, and is the original author of Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager. He holds a B.A. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. Mr. Viega is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) and a Senior Policy Researcher at the Cyberspace Policy Institute, and he serves on the Technical Advisory Board for the Open Web Applications Security Project. He also founded a Washington, D.C. area security interest group that conducts monthly lectures presented by leading experts in the field. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 80 technical publications, including numerous refereed research papers and trade articles.