Whether you're a security practitioner, developer, manager, administrator, or user, this book will give you the deep understanding necessary to meet today's security challenges--and anticipate tomorrow's. Unlike most books, The Craft of System Security doesn't just introduce the modern security practitioner's toolkit: it reveals why each tool exists, and demonstrates exactly how to use it to solve real problems.

After quickly reviewing the history of computer security, the authors move on to discuss the modern landscape, showing how security challenges and responses have evolved, and offering a coherent frameworkfor understanding today's systems and vulnerabilities. Next, they systematically introduce the basic building blocks for securing contemporary systems, apply them to today's applications, and consider important emerging trends such as hardware-based security.