Security category: 5602 books
by David Maynor
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This is the first book available for the Metasploit Framework (MSF), which is the attack platform of choice for one of the fastest growing careers in IT security: Penetration Testing. The book and companion Web site will provide professional penetration testers and security researchers with a fully...
by James A. Lewis, Denise E. Zheng, William A. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
The Internet has become central to global economic activity, politics, and security, and the security environment has changed recently, as we face much more aggressive state actors in espionage. Terrorists and criminals find creative ways to leverage the latest technologies to evade security and privacy...
Network Security Assessment
Know Your Network
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it, using the same tactics attackers employ to identify and exploit weaknesses. With the third edition of this practical book, you’ll learn how to perform network-based penetration testing in a structured manner. Security expert Chris...
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring.
Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too...
by Cynthia A. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope. This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations...
Understanding Complex Military Operations
A case study approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.
Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These...
by Yahia H. Zoubir, Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
An unprecedented analysis of how the liberation from colonial rule has threatened the Maghreb region of Africa and created political and social challenges that puts global security at risk.
• Includes biographies of key security leaders
• Contains documents and excerpts from state...
iPhone and iOS Forensics
Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad and iOS Devices
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
iPhone and iOS Forensics is a guide to the forensic acquisition and analysis of iPhone and iOS devices, and offers practical advice on how to secure iOS devices, data and apps. The book takes an in-depth look at methods and processes that analyze the iPhone/iPod in an official legal manner, so that...
Analyzing Intelligence
National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the...
Smart TV Security
Media Playback and Digital Video Broadcast
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book discusses the emerging topic of Smart TV security, including its implications on consumer privacy. The author presents chapters on the architecture and functionality of Smart TVs, various attacks and defenses, and associated risks for consumers. This includes the latest attacks on broadcast-related...
Absorptive Capacity in the Security and Justice Sectors
Assessing Obstacles to Success in the Donor-Recipient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains widespread. Even when standard approaches are modified for particular aid partners, there often remains...
by Kathryn Marie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Counterterrorism laws and policies have become a normalized fixture of security agendas across the globe. How do 'us/them' identity constructions contribute to the legitimizing strategies surrounding this development? The British case provides a historically-situated illustration which is of ongoing significance for security and insecurity today.
by Steven Metz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and strategic reassessments in the post–Cold War era. But the...
Handbook of Defense Economics
Defense in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and terrorists)...