An Introduction to Information Security

Full lecture notes from an undergraduate information security course, covering the security problem in computing, elementary cryptography, program and operating system security, database security, network controls, and the legal and ethical side of the field.

Sumitra Kisan, D. Chandrasekhar Rao

Course notes that introduce the core vocabulary of the field: the CIA triad, vulnerabilities and threats, active and passive attacks, cyber crime and cyber warfare, plus units on cyber forensics, mobile device security and organizational policy.

Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology

The reference map of the whole discipline, organized into nineteen knowledge areas written by specialists in each one, from risk management and human factors to cryptography, malware, forensics, network security and hardware. Over a thousand pages, so treat it as the book you keep returning to rather than read straight through.

Awais Rashid, Howard Chivers, Emil Lupu, Andrew Martin, Steve Schneider