Access Control, Authentication, and Public Key Infrastructure

Access Control, Authentication, and Public Key Infrastructure provides a unique, in-depth look at how access controls protect resouces against unauthorized viewing, tampering, or destruction and serves as a primary means of ensuring privacy, confidentiality, and prevention of unauthorized disclosure. Written by industry experts, this book defines the components of access control, provides a business framework for implementation, and discusses legal requirements that impact access control programs, before looking at the risks, threats, and vulerabilities prevalent in information systems and IT infrastructures and ways of handling them. Using examples and exercises, this book incorporates hands-on activities to prepare readers to successfully put access control systems to work as well as test and manage them. The Jones & Bartlett Learning: Information Systems Security & Assurance Series delivers fundamental IT Security principles packed with real-world applications and examples for IT Security, Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Security programs, Authored by Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs), and reviewed by leading technical experts in the field, these books are current, forward-thinking resources that enable readers to solve the cybersecurity challenges of today and tomorrow.