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Personally I just bought a mid-year textbook on cyber security from the University of Waterloo and I'm making my way through it. It's surprising how bad cyber s
by 3pt14159 10y ago
Personally I just bought a mid-year textbook on cyber security from the University of Waterloo and I'm making my way through it. It's surprising how bad cyber security is, but so much of it is right there in the pages of this book. It's like finding out you can buy a Patriot missile for $250 and some spare time in the evenings.
edit: And of course this book would be unapproachable had it not been for the work I've done in engineering, software development, and machine learning.
- pjmorris 10y agoCould you share the title/a link to the textbook?
- schoen 10y agoPerhaps it's the textbook used by the UW computer security course https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/courses/cs458/F16-material/home.shtml https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/courses/cs458/F16-material/home.s... which is Pfleeger's Security in Computing? https://www.pearsonhighered.com/program/Pfleeger-Security-in-Computing-5th-Edition/PGM25284.html https://www.pearsonhighered.com/program/Pfleeger-Security-in...
- 3pt14159 10y agoYou are correct. This is the one I was referring too, although I misattributed some of the topics (specifically machine learning) which weren't stressed in this textbook, but were stressed in some of the literature that I Googled as I read.
- learningram 10y agoWhat about machine learning is relevant to this textbook ?
- 3pt14159 10y agoWell the current state of the art in security is using techniques from ML towards intelligent vulnerability detection and intrusion (if you're team red), as well as intelligent detection of intrusion (if you're team blue). These are much easier to understand if you've written a classifier before.