Hardware-based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers

From Biometrics to Quantum Cryptograph
A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION
by Roger R. Dube.
E-Book
ISBN: 978-0-470-19339-6
256 Pages {PDF}
September 2008.

The protection of critical information and systems is a major component of today's electronic business community. This valuable reference presents the primary hardware based computer security approaches in an easy to read toolbox format.

Advances in computer security technologies are occurring at a fast pace.
As a result, defenses (over time) are dynamic and forever evolving.
As new protective measures appear, new attacks are developed to defeat them, leading to corrective improvements in the protective measures, new attacks, and so on.
Hacker organizations, often formed with the intent of forcing developers to improve and harden the security features of their products, meet frequently to discuss new security technologies as well as new attack tools.
Challenges and contests in which participants try to break security products or operating systems are mounted frequently and the results published broadly, often to the consternation of the product developer.
As more applications migrate to open source, the opportunity for deeper testing of security features is enhanced.

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