Beautiful security

Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.



Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include:

The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on their prey How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help or hurt our online security How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security to a higher level The real, little-publicized history of PGP

This book includes contributions from:

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko Jim Stickley Elizabeth Nichols Chenxi Wang Ed Bellis Ben Edelman Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas Kathy Wang Mark Curphey John McManus James Routh Randy V. Sabett Anton Chuvakin Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy Peter Wayner Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco

All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

• Preface p. xi
• 1 Psychological Security Traps p. 1 Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
• Learned Helplessness and Naïveté p. 2
• Confirmation Traps p. 10
• Functional Fixation p. 14
• Summary p. 20
• 2 Wireless Networking: Fertile Ground for Social Engineering p. 21 Jim Stickley
• Easy Money p. 22
• Wireless Gone Wild p. 28
• Still, Wireless is the Future p. 31
• 3 Beautiful Security Metrics p. 33 Elizabeth A. Nichols
• Security Metrics by Analogy: Health p. 34
• Security Metrics by Example p. 38
• Summary p. 60
• 4 The Underground Economy of Security Breaches p. 63 Chenxi Wang
• The Makeup and Infrastructure of the Cyber Underground p. 64
• The Payoff p. 66
• How Can We Combat This Growing Underground Economy? p. 71
• Summary p. 72
• 5 Beautiful Trade: Rethinking E-Commerce Security p. 73 Ed Bellis
• Deconstructing Commerce p. 74
• Weak Amelioration Attempts p. 76
• E-Commerce Redone: A New Security Model p. 83
• The New Model p. 86
• 6 Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and sheriffs in The New Wild West p. 89 Benjamin Edelman
• Attacks on Users p. 89
• Advertisers As Victims p. 98
• Creating Accountability in Online Advertising p. 105
• 7 The Evolution of PGP's Web of Trust p. 107 Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas
• PGP and OpenPGP p. 108
• Trust, Validity, and Authority p. 108
• PGP and Crypto History p. 116
• Enhancements to the Original Web of Trust Model p. 120
• Interesting Areas for Further Research p. 128
• References p. 129
• 8 Open Source Honeyclient: Proactive Detection of Client-Side Exploits p. 131 Kathy Wang
• Enter Honeyclients p. 133
• Introducing the World's First Open Source Honeyclient p. 133
• Second-Generation Honeyclients p. 135
• Honeyclient Operational Results p. 139
• Analysis of Exploits p. 141
• Limitations of the Current Honeyclient Implementation p. 143
• Related Work p. 144
• The Future of Honeyclients p. 146
• 9 Tomorrow's Security Cogs and Levers p. 147 Mark Curphey
• Cloud Computing and Web Services: The Single Machine Is Here p. 150
• Connecting People, Process, and Technology: The Potential for Business Process Management p. 154
• Social Networking: When People Start Communicating, Big Things Change p. 158
• Information Security Economics: Supercrunching and the New Rules of the Grid p. 162
• Platforms of the Long-Tail Variety: Why the Future Will Be Different for Us All p. 165
• Conclusion p. 168
• Acknowledgments p. 169
• 10 Security By Design p. 171 John McManus
• Metrics with No Meaning p. 172
• Time to Market or Time to Quality? p. 174
• How a Disciplined System Development Lifecycle Can Help p. 178
• Conclusion: Beautiful Security Is an Attribute of Beautiful Systems p. 181
• 11 Forcing Firms to Focus: Is Secure Software in Your Future? p. 183 Jim Routh
• Implicit Requirements Can Still Be Powerful p. 184
• How One Firm Came to Demand Secure Software p. 185
• Enforcing Security in Off-the-Shelf Software p. 190
• Analysis: How to Make the World's Software More Secure p. 193
• 12 Oh No, Here Come The Infosecurity Lawyers! p. 199 Randy V. Sabett
• Culture p. 200
• Balance p. 202
• Communication p. 207
• Doing the Right Thing p. 211
• 13 Beautiful Log Handling p. 213 Anton Chuvakin
• Logs in Security Laws and Standards p. 213
• Focus on Logs p. 214
• When Logs Are Invaluable p. 215
• Challenges with Logs p. 216
• Case Study: Behind a Trashed Server p. 218
• Future Logging p. 221
• Conclusions p. 223
• 14 Incident Detection: Finding The Other 68% p. 225 Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy
• A Common Starting Point p. 226
• Improving Detection with Context p. 228
• Improving Perspective with Host Logging p. 232
• Summary p. 237
• 15 Doing Real Work Without Real Data p. 239 Peter Wayner
• How Data Translucency Works p. 240
• A Real-Life Example p. 243
• Personal Data Stored As a Convenience p. 244
• Trade-offs p. 244
• Going Deeper p. 245
• References p. 246
• 16 Casting Spells: PC Security Theater p. 247 Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco
• Growing Attacks, Defenses in Retreat p. 248
• The Illusion Revealed p. 252
• Better Practices for Desktop Security p. 257
• Conclusion p. 258
• Contributors p. 259
• Index p. 269