Essential Computer Security. Everyone's Guide to E-mail, Internet, and Wireless Security

✍ Scribed by Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP (Eds.)

• Publisher: Syngress
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essential Computer Security provides the vast home user and small office computer market with the information they must know in order to understand the risks of computing on the Internet and what they can do to protect themselves.

Tony Bradley is the Guide for the About.com site for Internet Network Security. In his role managing the content for a site that has over 600,000 page views per month and a weekly newsletter with 25,000 subscribers, Tony has learned how to talk to people, everyday people, about computer security. Intended for the security illiterate, Essential Computer Security is a source of jargon-less advice everyone needs to operate their computer securely.

Written in easy to understand non-technical language that novices can comprehend

Provides detailed coverage of the essential security subjects that everyone needs to know

* Covers just enough information to educate without being overwhelming

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Acknowledgments, Page v
Dedication, Page v
Author Acknowledgments, Page vi
Lead Author, Page vi
Contributing Authors, Pages viii-ix
Technical Editor, Page ix
Foreword, Pages xix-xx, Douglas Schweitzer
Introduction, Pages xxi-xxvi
Chapter 1 - Basic Windows Security, Pages 3-28
Chapter 2 - Passwords, Pages 29-39
Chapter 3 - Viruses, Worms, and Other Malware, Pages 41-52
Chapter 4 - Patching, Pages 53-64
Chapter 5 - Perimeter Security, Pages 67-84
Chapter 6 - E-mail Safety, Pages 85-102
Chapter 7 - Web Surfing Privacy and Safety, Pages 103-121
Chapter 8 - Wireless Network Security, Pages 123-138
Chapter 9 - Spyware and Adware, Pages 139-150
Chapter 10 - Keeping Things Secure, Pages 153-164
Chapter 11 - When Disaster Strikes, Pages 165-177
Chapter 12 - Microsoft Alternatives: Inside the Linux Desktop, Pages 179-218
Appendix A - Essential Network Communications, Pages 221-228
Appendix B - Case Study, Pages 229-252
Appendix C - Glossary of Technology and Terminology, Pages 253-267
Index, Pages 269-279