Dictionary of Information Security
reviewed by Robert Pritchett
Author: Robert Slade http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/2698 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm Syngress Booksite: http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150 $30 USD, $39 CND, £ GBP, 16Û Euro Published: July 2006 Pages: 256 ISBN: 1597491152 Requirements: An interest in computer system security. Strengths: Provides up-to-date definitions to computer security terms mixed with a smattering of dry humor. Weaknesses: None found. Okay, one. Page 206 is labeled as a Forward instead of part of Appendix A (Quibble). |
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Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade may be jaundicedly looked at as a glorified glossary, but it is more. It doesnÕt gloss over the definitions. It comes from intimate knowledge about what constitutes as malware.
The close-knit Computer Forensics industry is expressed here in no less than 5 Forwards and one Preface before getting into cross-referenced A-Z terms and definitions followed by two Appendices, the frist being Refernces and the second being an Excerpt from Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent; ÒThe Lagos Creeper BoxÓ.
Robert Slade did a pretty good job justifying yet another dictionary. He found others were either too old, or didnÕt cover areas he and others were involved with.
So if you are involved in computer security and need a recent stab at the language of computer forensics. Why not take a look here?
