Introductory textbook in the important area of network security for undergraduate and graduate students
Comprehensively covers fundamental concepts with newer topics such as electronic cash, bit-coin, P2P, SHA-3, E-voting, and Zigbee security
Fully updated to reflect new developments in network security
Introduces a chapter on Cloud security, a very popular and essential topic
Uses everyday examples that most computer users experience to illustrate important principles and mechanisms
Features a companion website with Powerpoint slides for lectures and solution manuals to selected exercise problems, available at http://www.cs.uml.edu/~wang/NetSec
About the Author
Dr. Jie Wang, Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 1990, and an M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Zhongshan University, China, in 1985. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. He also has network security consulting experience in financial industry. He represented the University of Massachusetts system in the education taskforce of the Advanced Cyber Security Center sponsored by Mass Insight. His research interests include network security, big data modelling and applications, algorithms and computational optimization, computational complexity theory, and wireless sensor networks. His research has been funded continuously by the National Science Foundation since 1991, with additional funding by IBM, Intel, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. He is active in professional service, including chairing conference program committees and organizing workshops.
Dr. Zachary A. Kissel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, USA. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2013, and his M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 2007. He has network security industry experience working in a security group at Sun Microsystems (later Oracle) where he was responsible for maintenance of a firewall and cryptographic libraries. His research interests include cryptography and network security. His work has focused mainly on searchable symmetric encryption and access control to data stored on an untrusted cloud.
