Steven M. Bellovin

Aviel D. Rubin

William R. Cheswick

Introduces the authors' philosophy of Internet security, explores possible attacks on hosts and networks, discusses firewalls and virtual private networks, and analyzes the state of communication security.

Repelling the Wily Hacker

Firewalls and Internet Security

These authors are both well-known senior researchers at AT&T Bell Labs, and this book is based on their actual experiences maintaining, improving, and redesigning AT&T's Internet gateway. They show why the most popular technologies for keeping intruders out are insufficient, while providing a step-by-step guide to their solution--building firewall gateways.

Written by Steve Bellovin, one of the world's most respected security consultants, this guide is for students who know all the basics: working security specialists, admins, IT managers, architects, and chief security officers. Bellovin will help students take a deeper look at what they're doing, understand security as a "systems problem," recognize the implications of your environment, and "think like the enemy."

Stopping Next Year's Hackers

Thinking Security

Moti Yung

Angelos D. Keromytis

Rosario Gennaro

ACNS2008,the6thInternationalConferenceonAppliedCryptographyandN- work Security, was held in New York, New York, June 3–6, 2008, at Columbia University. ACNS 2008 was organized in cooperation with the International - sociation for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. The General Chairs of the conference were - gelos Keromytis and Moti Yung. The conference received 131 submissions, of which the Program Committee, chairedbyStevenBellovinandRosarioGennaro, selected 30 for presentation at the conference. The Best Student Paper Award was given to Liang Xie and Hui Song for their paper “On the E?ectiveness of Internal Patch Dissemination Against File-Sharing Worms” (co-authored with Sencun Zhu). These proceedings consist of revised versions of the presented papers. The revisions werenot reviewed.The authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. Thereweremany submissionsof goodquality, and consequentlythe selection process was challenging and very competitive. Indeed, a number of good papers were not accepted due to lack of space in the program. The main considerations in selecting the program were conceptual and technical innovation and quality of presentation. As re?ected in the Call for Papers, an attempt was made to solicit and publish papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives.

6th International Conference, ACNS 2008, New York, NY, USA, June 3-6, 2008, Proceedings

Applied Cryptography and Network Security

If you’re a security or network professional, you already know the “do’s and don’ts”: run AV software and firewalls, lock down your systems, use encryption, watch network traffic, follow best practices, hire expensive consultants . . . but it isn’t working. You’re at greater risk than ever, and even the world’s most security-focused organizations are being victimized by massive attacks. In Thinking Security, author Steven M. Bellovin provides a new way to think about security. As one of the world’s most respected security experts, Bellovin helps you gain new clarity about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. He helps you understand security as a systems problem, including the role of the all-important human element, and shows you how to match your countermeasures to actual threats. You’ll learn how to move beyond last year’s checklists at a time when technology is changing so rapidly. You’ll also understand how to design security architectures that don’t just prevent attacks wherever possible, but also deal with the consequences of failures. And, within the context of your coherent architecture, you’ll learn how to decide when to invest in a new security product and when not to. Bellovin, co-author of the best-selling Firewalls and Internet Security, caught his first hackers in 1971. Drawing on his deep experience, he shares actionable, up-to-date guidance on issues ranging from SSO and federated authentication to BYOD, virtualization, and cloud security. Perfect security is impossible. Nevertheless, it’s possible to build and operate security systems far more effectively. Thinking Security will help you do just that.

Salvatore J. Stolfo

Sara Sinclair

Shlomo Hershkop

Sean W. Smith

This book defines the nature and scope of insider problems as viewed by the financial industry. This edited volume is based on the first workshop on Insider Attack and Cyber Security, IACS 2007. The workshop was a joint effort from the Information Security Departments of Columbia University and Dartmouth College. The book sets an agenda for an ongoing research initiative to solve one of the most vexing problems encountered in security, and a range of topics from critical IT infrastructure to insider threats. In some ways, the insider problem is the ultimate security problem.

Steven M. Bellovin

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