Summary

Network Security Essentials, Third Edition is a thorough, up-to-date introduction to the deterrence, prevention, detection, and correction of security violations involving information delivery across networks and the Internet. William Stallings presents a coherent framework for understanding network security, then systematically introduces the field's essential concepts and techniques. Among the topics covered: cryptography, authentication, email security, IP security, SSL, network management, intrusion detection, malware, firewalls, and trusted systems. This edition fully reflects today's key advances, from AES and RC4 cryptography to the newest security evaluation frameworks. Like all of Stallings' books, it offers outstanding clarity, careful organization, and extensive pedagogical support. That support includes hundreds of carefully crafted homework problems, more than half of them new to this edition. Book jacket.