This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. It details different countermeasures and their implementation.

Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of computer science and also for self-study by IT professionals The authors' supporting software environment is freely downloadable, and most chapters end with exercises The authors have successfully taught IT security to students and professionals using the content of this book and the laboratory setting it describes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. David Basin is the Chair of Information Security at ETH Zürich; his research focuses on information security, in particular methods and tools for modeling, building, and validating secure and reliable systems. Dr. Patrick Schaller is a lecturer at ETH Zürich, his research is concerned with the formalization and analysis of security protocols. Michael Schläpfer is a graduate student of ETH Zürich.

Inhalt
Chap. 1, Security Principles.- Chap. 2, The Virtual Environment.- Chap. 3, Network Services.- Chap. 4, Authentication and Access Control.- Chap. 5, Logging and Log Analysis.- Chap. 6, Web Application Security.- Chap. 7, Certificates and Public-Key Cryptography.- Chap. 8, Risk Management.- App. A, Using This Book in a Lab Course.- App. B, Report Template.- App. C, Linux Basics and Tools.- App. D, Answers to Questions.- References.- Index.