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)

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, is Program Director of the Master of Science in Information Assurance program at Norwich University.