Introductory textbook in the important area of network security for undergraduate and graduate students * Comprehensively covers fundamental concepts with newer topics such as electronic cash, bit-coin, P2P, SHA-3, E-voting, and Zigbee security * Fully updated to reflect new developments in network security * Introduces a chapter on Cloud security, a very popular and essential topic * Uses everyday examples that most computer users experience to illustrate important principles and mechanisms * Features a companion website with Powerpoint slides for lectures and solution manuals to selected exercise problems, available at http://www.cs.uml.edu/~wang/NetSec
Chapter 1: Network Security Overview
Chapter 2: Data Encryption Algorithms
Chapter 3: Public-Key Cryptography and Key Management
Chapter 4: Data Authentication
Chapter 5: Network Security Protocols in Practice
Chapter 6: Wireless Network Security
Chapter 7: Cloud Security
Chapter 8: Network Perimeter Security
Chapter 9: Intrusion Detections
Chapter 10: The Art of Anti-Malicious Software
Appendix A. 7-bit ASCII code
Appendix B. SHA-512 Constants (in Hexadecimal)
Appendix C. Data Compression Using ZIP
Appendix D. Base64 Encoding
Appendix E. Cracking WEP Keys Using WEPCrack
Appendix F. Acronyms
