Review: The Internet Encyclopedia

The long view of security strategies for your network.

The Internet Encyclopedia is a valuable addition to any network professional’s or corporate library.

The encyclopedia’s editor-in-chief, Hossein Bidgoli is professor of management information systems at California State University in Bakersfield. He is also editor-in-chief of the _Encyclopedia of Information Systems_.

I have just received _The Internet Encyclopedia_ for review. This 2,635-page, three-volume work includes peer-reviewed contributions from more than 240 authors and more than 840 subject-expert reviewers. It was designed with the needs of both academics and working professionals in mind. A noteworthy feature is that everyone made a special effort to write simply and plainly so that even novices such as young students would be able to understand the articles.

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The Internet Encyclopedia is a valuable addition to any network professional’s or corporate library.

The encyclopedia’s editor-in-chief, Hossein Bidgoli is professor of management information systems at California State University in Bakersfield. He is also editor-in-chief of the _Encyclopedia of Information Systems_.

I have just received _The Internet Encyclopedia_ for review. This 2,635-page, three-volume work includes peer-reviewed contributions from more than 240 authors and more than 840 subject-expert reviewers. It was designed with the needs of both academics and working professionals in mind. A noteworthy feature is that everyone made a special effort to write simply and plainly so that even novices such as young students would be able to understand the articles.

Subject areas include:

* Applications
* Design, Implementation, And Management
* E-Commerce
* Foundation
* Infrastructure
* Legal, Social, Organizational, International, And Taxation Issues
* Marketing And Advertising On The Web
* Security Issues And Measures
* Supply-Chain Management
* Web Design And Programming
* Wireless Internet And E-Commerce

In addition to the articles on individual technologies such as Active Server Pages, Bluetooth, computer languages, e-commerce modalities, and so on, topics (and their authors) bearing directly on information assurance include at least the following:

* Authentication (Patrick McDaniel)
* Biometric Authentication (James L. Wayman)
* Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) (Raymond R. Panko)
* Computer Viruses And Worms (Robert Slade)
* Copyright Law (Gerald R. Ferrera)
* Cybercrime and Cyberfraud (Camille Chin)
* Denial-Of-Service Attacks (E. Eugene Schultz)
* Digital Identity (Drummond Reed and Jerry Kindall)
* Digital Signatures And Electronic Signatures (Raymond R. Panko)
* Disaster Recovery Planning (Marco Cremonini and Pierangela Samarati)
* Encryption (Ari Juels)
* Firewalls (James E. Goldman)
* Guidelines For Comprehensive Security System (Margarita Maria Lenk)
* International Cyberlaw (Julia Alpert Gladstone)
* Internet Security Standards (Raymond R. Panko)
* Intrusion Detection Techniques (Peng Ning and Shushil Jajodia)
* Law Enforcement (Robert Vaughn and Judith C. Simon)
* Legal, Social and Ethical Issues (Kenneth Einar Himma)
* Online Stalking (David J. Loundy)
* Passwords (Jeremy Rasmussen)
* Patent Law (Gerald Bluhm)
* Physical Security (Mark Michael)
* Privacy Law (Ray Everett-Church)
* Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) (Russ Housley)
* Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) (Mark S. Merkow)
* Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Robert J. Boncella)
* Software Piracy (Robert K. Moniot)
* Trademark Law (Ray Everett-Church)
* Virtual Private Networks: Internet Protocol (IP) Based (David E. McDysan)
* Windows 2000 Security (E. Eugene Schultz)

Camille Chin, professor at West Virginia University College of Law, wrote an 11-page overview of cybercrime and cyberfraud. Chin writes beautifully - clear, assertive prose full of information. Her article reviews cybercrime definitions and statistics (I would have liked a brief warning about the difficulty of trusting non-scientific surveys) and then goes on to a remarkably informative and well structured summary of cybercrime, including:

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, specializes in security and operations management consulting services and teaching. He is Chief Technical Officer of Adaptive Cyber Security Instruments, Inc. and Associate Professor of Information Assurance in the School of Business and Management at Norwich University. Visit his Web site for white papers and course materials.