Cryptography and Security Services Mechanisms and Applications pdf

Cryptography and Security Services Mechanisms and Applications Wonderful Digest

Intended Audience

This book is intended to provide those in the information assurance field with a basic techni-cal reference that provides the language, knowledge, and tools to understand and implement security services, mechanisms, and applications in today’s secure communications networks.This book could also be used as a text in a one-semester information assurance course,especially in Master of Business Administration and Master of Science programs.

Readers with backgrounds in telecommunications and information technology will probably be somewhat familiar with certain parts of the material covered in this book. Other readers,for example, those in the Master of Business Administration in Information Assurance pro-gram may find that this book has too much technical information for their future needs. In those situations, professors may decide not to emphasize the technical parts of the material and focus on those principles that are essential to information assurance.

The crypto, security services, and security mechanisms topics presented in this book map the training requirements in CNSS 4011, the National Training Standard for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, and CNSS 4012, the National Information Assurance Training Standard for senior systems managers.