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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.

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National Research Council. 1991. Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/1581.

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320 pages |  6 x 9 |  Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-309-04388-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/1581
Chapters skim
Front Matter i-xvi
Executive Summary 1-6
Overview and Recommendations 7-48
Concepts of Information Security 49-73
Technology to Achieve Secure Computer 74-101
Programming Methodology 102-123
Criteria to Evaluate Computer and Network Security 124-142
Why the Security Market Has Not Worked Well 143-178
The Need to Establish an Information Security Foundation 179-205
Research Topics and Funding 206-215
Bibliography 216-240
A The Orange Book 241-245
B Selected Topics in Computer Security Technology 246-275
C Emergency Response Teams 276-277
D Models for GSSP 278-282
E High-grade Threats 283-285
F Glossary 286-302
G List of Members of the Former Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources 303-304

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