Vacca J.R. (Ed.) Cyber Security and it Infrastructure Protection

Syngress, 2014. — 380 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 9780124166899, 9780124166813This Cyber Security And IT Infrastructure Protection derivative book serves as a security practitioner’s guide to today’s most crucial issues in cyber security and IT infrastructure protection. It offers in-depth coverage of theory, technology, and practice as they relate to established technologies as well as recent advance- ments in the field. It explores practical solu- tions to a wide range of cyber-physical and IT infrastructure protection issues with individual chapters authored by leading experts in the field addressing the immedi- ate and long-term challenges in the authors’ respective areas of expertise.
Furthermore, this comprehensive book serves as a professional reference to pro- vide the most complete and concise view of how to manage cyber attacks on the critical IT infrastructure computer networks, which are aimed at significantly disrupting or per- manently wiping out the functioning of government and business alike. The cyber attacks would produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident. Thus, this book provides a very detailed comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to defend the communications and information technol- ogy infrastructure, which is designed to improve resilience versus attacks; and, to reduce the overall cyber threat.