CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide

The industry-leading study guide for the CISA exam, fully updatedMore than 27,000 IT professionals take the Certified Information Systems Auditor exam each year. SC Magazine lists the CISA as the top certification for security professionals. Compliances, regulations, and best practices for IS auditing are updated twice a year, and this is the most up-to-date book [...]


Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools: Using Open Source Platform Tools for Performing Computer Forensics on Target Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc

Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools. The book is a technical procedural guide, and explains the use of these tools on Linux and Windows systems as a platform for performing computer forensics. Both well known and novel forensic methods [...]


SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide

A comprehensive exam guide to SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner certificationSSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide offers complete coverage of the SSCP certification from ISC(2), considered the first step to CISSP certification for IT security professionals. Expert discussion sidebars convey in-depth information. Tip, Caution, and Note icons highlight key topics. End-of-chapter quizzes test [...]


GSN 2011 Awards Winners and Sponsor Interviews: Tom Harada, Managing Director, Security Systems, Pentax Ricoh Imaging of America

A few moments after Pentax Ricoh accepted its 2001 Award for “Best Specialized CCTV Lens,” Tom Harada sat down with GSN to talk about his engineers’ strategy of getting back to the basics in optical technology. “When it comes to long-range zoom lenses,” he points out, “the longer the distance, the more difficult everything gets. [...]


Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe  —  Diagram of the Duqu malware, courtesy of Symantec.  —  A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques …


Implications of Aggregated DoD Information Systems for Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation

Product DescriptionThe challenge of securing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) information systems has grown significantly. A new approach to information assurance certification and accreditation (IA C&A) is needed to effectively extend the IA C&A process to aggregations of systems and improve their security. An examination of current policy shows that a number of changes could [...]


Secret Service to install intrusion detection, CCTV and access control systems in its field offices

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  access_control_identification Image Caption:  Bosch’s 9412Gcontrol panel The U.S. Secret Service plans to hire an 8(a)-qualified systems integrator to install intrusion detection systems, closed circuit television, access control systems and “any additional security deemed appropriate” in its field offices located across the United States. Homepage position:  10 read more


Secure Computer and Network Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Design

Product DescriptionComputer and network systems have given us unlimited opportunities of reducing cost, improving efficiency, and increasing revenues, as demonstrated by an increasing number of computer and network applications. Yet, our dependence on computer and network systems has also exposed us to new risks, which threaten the security of, and present new challenges for protecting [...]


Salto Systems shows electronic cylinder lock

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  access_control_identification Image Caption:  Saltogeo lock The Salto GEO (Global Electronic Opening) electronic cylinder lock is the latest addition to the company’s stand alone range of RFID locks, said Salto Systems. The lock was specially designed and developed for use on doors where normal escutcheons cannot be fitted or are not [...]


SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems

Product DescriptionSecure Sockets Layer (SSL) is used in virtually every commercial web browser and server. In this book, one of the world’s leading network security experts explains how SSL works — and gives implementers step-by-step guidance and proven design patterns for building secure systems with SSL. Eric Rescorla also provides the first in-depth introduction to [...]