Computer Security [Art and Science] (pdf)

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Today, everyone recognizes the importance of safeguarding computer systems and networks from vulnerability, attack, and compromise. But computer security is neither an easy art nor a simple science: its methodologies and technologies require rigorous study, and a deep grounding in principles that can be applied even as technologies change. Moreover, practitioners must understand how to align concepts with real policies, and then actually implement those policies — managing inevitable tradeoffs such as “How secure do our devices really need to be, and how much inconvenience can we accept?”