Computer Security

I have bought this book for the lecture and its great . It is has a lot of information in security , and however wants to enter in the field of Security should get this book it will give you a greater understanding about it .

This book provides a good overview of the history and implications of computer security. It begins by making everything easy to understand, but quickly falls into a mathematical jumble that had me, and others in my class, confused during the later chapters. My biggest gripe with the book is that it provides very complex mathematical "proofs" of security with no external explanation to those of us who do not understand these complex math concepts.For example, it will state something like "As you can see by <complex formula here> the security would allow x to access y." No, I don't even know what you just showed me, and there's no explanation given for the symbols or what they might mean. You can't google for a symbol if you don't know what it is called either.Overall, a useful primer, but very confusing in the later chapters. More explanation in English and less formulas would have been appreciated.

The book has great and verity of security knowledge, it explain each concepts in few and simple steps. I really recommend this book for anyone want to enrich his knowledge in security.

A bit dated, but right on target.

Needed for class

Good book for beginners. Some topics are obscure.

Agreed, Dieter Gollmann is very reputed and knowledgeable. But this book is written in a hurry. Probably, he started writing the book three weeks before the deadline. There is no flow of material. Random "summary" sections. There are two ways to describe anything in security. Someone can be very technical or very descriptive. For example, if some one wants to explain a cryptology technique, they can be totally mathematical or they can be totally discriptive or if you have time and space (and scope of the book) do both. In this book he does a half baked job of both. Even very interesting and engaging topics like public key cryptography are explained horribly. The initial price of this book in three digit amount is just total waste of money. Even at the current two digit price it is a waste of money. The book coverage is so random and without a flow, the learner is better off perusing wikipedia.

Brilliant