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Web Security and Commerce

By Simson Garfinkel
With Gene Spafford
First Edition  June 1997 
Pages: 500
ISBN 10: 1-56592-269-7 | ISBN 13: 9781565922693
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Learn how to minimize the risks of the Web with this comprehensive guide. It covers browser vulnerabilities, privacy concerns, issues with Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, and plug-ins, digital certificates, cryptography, Web server security, blocking software, censorship technology, and relevant civil and criminal issues.
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Attacks on government Web sites, break-ins at Internet service providers, electronic credit card fraud, invasion of personal privacy by merchants as well as hackers--is this what the World Wide Web is really all about? Web Security & Commerce cuts through the hype and the front page stories. It tells you what the real risks are and explains how you can minimize them. Whether you're a casual (but concerned) Web surfer or a system administrator responsible for the security of a critical Web server, this book will tell you what you need to know. Entertaining as well as illuminating, it looks behind the headlines at the technologies, risks, and benefits of the Web. Whatever browser or server you are using, you and your system will benefit from this book. Topics include:
  • User safety--browser vulnerabilities (with an emphasis on Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer), privacy concerns, issues with Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, and plug-ins.
  • Digital certificates--what they are, how they assure identity in a networked environment, how certification authorities and server certificates work, and what code signing all about.
  • Cryptography--an overview of how encryption works on the Internet and how different algorithms and programs are being used today.
  • Web server security--detailed technical information about SSL (Secure Socket Layer), TLS (Transport Layer Security), host security, server access methods, and secure CGI/API programming.
  • Commerce and society--how digital payments work, what blocking software and censorship technology (e.g., PICS and RSACi) is about, and what civil and criminal issues you need to understand.

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Web Security & Commerce Review,  September 13 2000
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Submitted by Marcio Aparecido Paixão   [Respond | View]

The book is very, very good. The actors of the book are excellents.
My congratulation for publication of the book.
The book is translate here, but doesn't than the original.


Web Security & Commerce Review,  September 13 2000
Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
Submitted by Marcio Aparecido Paixão   [Respond | View]

The book is very, very good. The actors of the book are excellents.
My congratulation for publication of the book.
The book is translate here, but doesn't than the original.

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Media reviews "Web Security...is an oasis in a sea of Internet security misinformation. Practical, evenhanded, comprehensive and platform-neutral, this new book is the best source for Web security wisdom.... [It's] the best single-volume guide to the dangers of life on the Web and the technologies and strategies that can help users and publishers enjoy the benefits and advantages of the Web." --ENT, October 1997

"Garfinkel and Spafford deal head on with key elements of Internet and enterprise security. Web Security and Commerce addresses modern security technologies and applications in a comprehensive fashion, and is an important work in the explosive, fast-moving, and highly visible security field." --Eric Greenberg, Group Security Product Manager, Netscape Communications Corporation

"This is a truly useful book which can help people avoid a lot of the risks in Webware. It is intelligently written, timely, informative, accurate, comprehensive, understandable, and a great pleasure to read. It is the Web-ster's definitive guide to security." --Peter G. Neumann, moderator of ACM "RISKS" Forum and author of
Computer-Related Risks

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