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| Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems | 
| Author: Ross J. Anderson
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 21691
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1080
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.7 x 2.6
ISBN: 0470068523
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780470068526
ASIN: 0470068523
Publication Date: April 14, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 More high-level concepts and less hands-on guidance March 29, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is certainly a good book for getting introduced to most high-level architectural concepts related to Network security, cryptography, mandatory/multi-level access control etc. From a application development perspective, this book falls short on how to build architecure, design and implement them into your business applications which ultimately meets the end-user. The author justifies the high-level concepts well enough from a generalist perspective, but the industry-standards from OASIS leans towards standards-based application security protocols..which pushes a developer/architect like me to take those suggestions first and how to apply them in real world. The book also does'nt address on how-to build security for emerging application architectures based on Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Identity Management, Net-centric Federated applications. As a developer/architect using Java or Microsoft .NET or open-source based distributed applications, I need guidance on how to implement the recommended concepts (in the book) for example using biometrics or smartcards for building multi-factor access control at my application-level...unfortunately I don't find any answers for real-world implementation.
 Best security book on the market March 3, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a must own and a must read. Ross Anderson may tweak people's noses on occassion...but usually because they need tweaking. Get this book now. Really.
Excellent but biased December 11, 2005
2 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book on Security Engineering. While I don't mind the anti American anecdotes, I wasn't pleased to see Abdulrahman and terrorist being used close to each other. I think it places a huge bias on the Arabic people as terrorists.
Great resource, cover to cover January 26, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has helped us a great deal over the past two years with various issues related to our security architecture. Highly recommended, but only if you require a deep level of understanding. I suggest you review the TOC of this book before purchasing it, just to understand what it covers.
 Excellent substantive content but please leave out politics. June 20, 2004
8 out of 22 found this review helpful
Mr. Anderson is a first rate, major league expert in his field and this comes across in the substantive, technical content of his writing. However his professional dissertation is diminished by the anti American invective of his (supposed) anecdotes. If you are a US citizen that has been indoctrinated to blame America first or just someone that dislikes America - you will find Mr. Anderson's anecdotes to be entertaining, even amusing. If you are not anti American, Mr. Anderson's anecdotes only clutter and distract from the text. This book is a great technical source. If Anderson would keep his political bias to himself, I would not hesitate to give his book a 5 star rating.
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