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Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in a Uncertain World | Bruce Schneier
Springer, Hardcover, Published July 2003, 295 pages, ISBN 0387026207 | List Price: $25.00
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In "Beyond Fear," Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look
at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged
to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes
and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all
can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in
the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished
freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional,
and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion.
With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought,
Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain
good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security
systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part
of government often undermines security. A skeptic of much that's promised by
highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly
positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering
world of security pundits.
Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best
come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already
have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that
we're being asked to submit to and pay for.
Table of Contents
Part One: Sensible Security
1. All Security Involves Trade-offs
2. Security Trade-offs Are Subjective
3. Security Trade-offs Depend on Power and Agenda
Part Two: How Security Works
4. Systems and How They Fail
5. Knowing the Attackers
6. Attackers Never Change Their Tunes, Just Their Instruments
7. Technology Creates Security Imbalances
8. Security Is a Weakest-Link Problem
9. Brittleness Makes for Bad Security
10. Security Revolves Around People
11. Detection Works Where Prevention Fails
12. Detection Is Useless Without Response
13. Identification, Authentication, and Authorization
14. All Countermeasures Have Some Value, But No Countermeasure Is Perfect
15. Fighting Terrorism
Part Three: The Game of Security
16. Negotiating for Security
17. Security Demystified
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Index
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