Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications

Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications by Kenneth P. Birman reviews important network technologies from a security and reliability perspective and discusses effective solutions with an eye towards their application to real-world systems. All computing professional who works with networked software will find this book valuable in understanding security and reliability vulnerabilities and how to address them. The contents of the book includes: Components of a reliable networked computing system; Reliability of Web and related Internet technologies; How and why networked systems fail; Techniques for making systems secure and reliable; Retrofitting reliability into existing applications. This 591 pages book priced at USD 58 can be downloaded in PDF format from the url http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~ler/docencia/tfd0405/bib/BSRNA.pdf. The authour has also placed his slides to facilitate the development of course materials on Cornell University's public file server and they can be accessed at ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/ken/slides