Since You Asked! Episode 6: Book Review of Computer Security Literacy: Staying Safe in a Digital World

Digital Librarian Daniel Cornwall reviews the book Computer Security Literacy: Staying Safe in a Digital World by Douglas Jacobson and Joseph Idziorek. Daniel provides an overview of the book's content along with a favorable review. The podcast closes with three computer security tips taken from the book.

Listen to Podcast (.mp3)
[ 12 minutes ]
Recorded on January 15, 2014

Table of Contents, as promised in the podcast:

Chapters

1. What Is Information Security?
2. Introducation to Computers and the Internet
3. Passwords under Attack
4. Email Security
5. Malware: The Dark Side of Software
6. Malware: Defense in Depth
7. Securely Surfing the World Wide Web
8. Online Shopping
9. Wireless Internet Security
10. Social Networking
11. Social Engineering: Phishing for Suckers
12. Staying Safe Online: The Human Threat
13. Case Studies
14. Moving Forward with Security and Book Summary

Glossary
Appendix A: Reading List
Appendix B: Basics of Cryptography
Appendix C: Web Surfing Security Technologies


Find this book:

• In the Alaska State Library and other libraries of the Joint Library Catalog
• Elsewhere in the world