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1 online resource (xxviii, 756 pages) : illustrations |
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pt. 1. Web technology. The web security landscape -- The architecture of the World Wide Web -- Cryptography basics -- Cryptography and the Web -- Understanding SSL and TLS -- Digital identification I: passwords, biometrics, and digital signatures -- Digital identification II: digital certificates, CAs, and PKI -- pt. II. Privacy and security for users. The Web's war on your privacy -- Privacy-protecting techniques -- Privacy-protecting technologies -- Backups and antitheft -- Mobile code I: plug-ins, ActiveX, and Visual Basic -- Mobile code II: Java, JavaScript, Flash, and Shockwave -- pt. III. Web server security. Physical security for servers -- Host security for servers -- Securing web applications -- Deploying SSL server certificates -- Securing your web service -- Computer crime -- pt. IV. Security for content providers. Controlling access to your web content -- Client-side digital certificates -- Code signing and Microsoft's Authenticode -- Pornography, filtering software, and censorship -- Privacy policies, legislations and P3P -- Digital payment -- Intellectual property and actionable content |
| Summary |
Since the first edition of this classic reference was published, World Wide Web use has exploded and e-commerce has become a daily part of business and personal life. As Web use has grown, so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to routine invasions of privacy by marketers to web site defacements to attacks that shut down popular web sites. Web Security, Privacy and Commerce goes behind the headlines, examines the major security risks facing us today, and explains how we can minimize them. It describes risks for Windows and Unix, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, and a wide range of current programs and products. In vast detail, the book covers: Web technology--The technological underpinnings of the modern Internet and the cryptographic foundations of e-commerce are discussed, along with SSL (the Secure Sockets Layer), the significance of the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and digital identification, including passwords, digital signatures, and biometrics. Web privacy and security for users--Learn the real risks to user privacy, including cookies, log files, identity theft, spam, web logs, and web bugs, and the most common risk, users' own willingness to provide e-commerce sites with personal information. Hostile mobile code in plug-ins, ActiveX controls, Java applets, and JavaScript, Flash, and Shockwave programs are also covered. Web server security--Administrators and service providers discover how to secure their systems and web services. Topics include CGI, PHP, SSL certificates, law enforcement issues, and more. Web content security--Zero in on web publishing issues for content providers, including intellectual property, copyright and trademark issues, P3P and privacy policies, digital payments, client-side digital signatures, code signing, pornography filtering and PICS, and other controls on web content. Nearly double the size of the first edition, this completely updated volume is destined to be the definitive reference on Web security risks and the techniques and technologies you can use to protect your privacy, your organization, your system, and your network |
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Revised edition of: Web security & commerce. 1997 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 716-734) and index |
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Computer networks -- Security measures.
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World Wide Web -- Security measures
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Web sites -- Security measures
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Computer networks -- Security measures
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Web sites -- Security measures
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World Wide Web -- Security measures
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Computernetwerken.
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Databescherming.
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Privacy.
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E-commerce.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Spafford, Gene
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