Information Security Lecture Notes
Sumitra Kisan, D. Chandrasekhar Rao
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.
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