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Market_Desc: · Computer programmers and computer engineers with no security background· Computer Security Professionals· Students · Professors Special Features: · Revision of best-selling first edition, 0471389226, 3/9/01, 24,000 copies sold· Updated with 200 more pages and new coverage of Vista, Xen, phishing, Google issues, declassified military doctrine, Richard Clarke issues, Skype, mobile fraud, music security issues (iTunes, etc.), antitrust issues and more· No other book covers the security of embedded applications (cars, postal meters, vending machines, phones, etc.)· The author is one of the world's foremost authorities on security design for companies like Microsoft, Intel, and VISA; the first edition is considered the seminal work in security design About The Book: The book's contents speak to the audience: working technical professional with no security background. To that end, all examples are for current technologies and applications. Using current, real-world examples the book covers basic Concepts of Security Engineering (including examples of systems and failures).The book is a security design manual for embedded systems, the only one of its kind, thought to be a seminal work and controversial in high-level circles because some security experts think the author is giving the bad guys as many secret algorithms as the good guys but that's what you really have to know if you want to build good security systems.