About the Book: Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a comprehensive, classroom-ready introduction to how digital
systems are attacked and how they are defended. Banking, healthcare, education,
governance, and commerce now run on digital infrastructure, and cybercrime has
stopped being an IT department problem. This book is written for the students
and professionals who will have to deal with that.
The text is organized into fifteen chapters that move from foundational concepts
to advanced and emerging areas. The opening chapters establish what cyber
security is, then work through the taxonomy of active, passive, and hardware
attacks; malware in all its forms; social engineering; and two full chapters on
web application