Computer Related Risks
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Computer-Related Risks
Author: Peter G. Neumann
language: en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Release Date: 1994-10-18
"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections on the future." —Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, with widely ranging causes and effects. It considers problems attributable to hardware, software, people, and natural causes. Examples include disasters (such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Iranian Airbus shootdowns, the Exxon Valdez, and various transportation accidents); malicious hacker attacks; outages of telephone systems and computer networks; financial losses; and many other strange happenstances (squirrels downing power grids, and April Fool's Day pranks). Computer-Related Risks addresses problems involving reliability, safety, security, privacy, and human well-being. It includes analyses of why these cases happened and discussions of what might be done to avoid recurrences of similar events. It is readable by technologists as well as by people merely interested in the uses and limits of technology. It is must reading for anyone with even a remote involvement with computers and communications—which today means almost everyone. Computer-Related Risks: Presents comprehensive coverage of many different types of risks Provides an essential system-oriented perspective Shows how technology can affect your life—whether you like it or not!
Computer-Related Risks
This book is based on a remarkable collection of mishaps & oddities relating to computer technology. It considers what has gone wrong in the past, what is likely to go wrong in the future, & what can be done to minimize the occurrence of further problems. Many of the events described here have been discussed in the on-line computer newsgroup, the Forum on Risks to the Public in the Use of Computers & Related Systems, which the author has moderated since 1985, under the auspices of the ACM. Chapters include: the nature of risks, reliability & safety problem-being, a system-oriented perspective, & a human-oriented perspective.
Computers at Risk
Author: National Research Council
language: en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date: 1990-02-01
Computers at Risk presents a comprehensive agenda for developing nationwide policies and practices for computer security. Specific recommendations are provided for industry and for government agencies engaged in computer security activities. The volume also outlines problems and opportunities in computer security research, recommends ways to improve the research infrastructure, and suggests topics for investigators. The book explores the diversity of the field, the need to engineer countermeasures based on speculation of what experts think computer attackers may do next, why the technology community has failed to respond to the need for enhanced security systems, how innovators could be encouraged to bring more options to the marketplace, and balancing the importance of security against the right of privacy.