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Public Key Infrastructure: Building Trusted Applications and Web Services

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All the reviews say basically the same thing: The book is a must buy. They all start with the authors name in the first sentence. They don't really say anything about the book's content in detail. Also, most of the reviews have been submitted within a couple of days. Before and after were hardly any reviews. It looks fishy to me.

This book covers the entire spectrum of PKI technology with an emphasis on the pratical aspects of design,implementation and use. As an IT security professional, I have found this book to be extremely useful in my job as we must constantly be on guard and make use of the latest technology to stay one step ahead of the multitude of security threats we face on a day-to-day basis.

To successfully transact business on the worldwide web, a secure network is essential. John Vacca's book explores public key infrastructures (PKIs)as a technology to provide that security. This book would be a good resource for anyone responsible for maintaining network security in big business or small.

This is an excellent book that explains how to build the appropriate layers of security throughout networks. The book helps enablers to alleviate their concerns of how to protect assets and to concentrate on their organizational values. Public key infrastructure examines in-depth why security is crucial to internet users. The book is an effective educational tool organized into five sections and twenty six chapters with appendices and an excellent glossary. The book also recommends what to consider before implementing public key infrastructure.

With his latest book "Public Key Infrastructure" John Vacca provides a wealth of information related to the technologies available to ensure trust and confidentiality in data transmission and storage within open business environments. This book is a useful reference for anybody with a need to understand the different public key infrastructure implementations used throughout industry today. Public Key Infrastructures also contains a multitude of illustrations that explicitly describe everything from encryption implementation methods to enterprise network design. I highly recommend this book as a desk reference for any security professional, software developer, or network administrator.

PKI is paving the way for secure communications within organizations and on the internet. This book goes into depth describing the "how and why" of PKI security layers of thoughout a network. Anyone associated with IT (managers,users,developers of web or network systems)will find this book valuable. Relevant for those interested in both an outline and indepth understanding how PKI is paving the way to protect today's investment of digital data. Highly recommended.

PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE, edited by John Vacca, is geared toward security professionals, IT departments, programmers and technical staff, as well as executives and anyone responsible for creating and/or implementing long-range computer security within a company. The book provides an extensive analysis of standards, certificate authority services, design and architecture considerations, as well as in-depth examinations of implementation issues such as schedule, cost, and performance. The Overview section identifies PKIs at the highest levels of application security and deals with security of key files. The chapter by Binder establishes PKI basics and discusses how to maintain privacy, integrity, and control. Section II, which covers analysis and design, contains a very useful chapter on assessing the ROI on PKI software and concludes that the return on investment is "too difficult and not necessary to assess." The author suggests using one of the PKI experts now readily available and states that the cost of PKI is less than the financial returned guaranteed on PKI-enabled applications. Section III on implementation outlines development and management issues, and Vacca's chapter concludes that the value of PKI grows exponentially once companies can authenticate both internal and external entities (for example, partners and suppliers). Section IV deals with management issues, and Ellison and Schneier's chapter lists ten risks of PKI. Basically, the authors believe that PKI is being promoted as an easy fix, and they caution the buyer to beware. This book is comprehensive and fair in its coverage and should serve as an invaluable guide for businesses and governments concerned with privacy and computer security.

Mr. Vacca's book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in secure communications within their organizations and on the internet. He begins with the basics and takes us through analysis and design all the way to implementation and management of PKI's. It is truly a comprehensive book.

I currently work in the outsourcing IT world and am pursuing my MBA. I am currently writing a paper for my IT class about the security problems a global economy presents. This book shows how to implement PKI, how long one might expect it to take, and how it can be done. The major thing I like about the book is the way it is divided into small sections and the excellent charts to illustrate how this technology works.

John Vaccas recent book dealing with Public Key Infrastruture (PKI)goes a long way to answering this question.
With the tremendous need for true secure internet services PKI implementation is paramount. This book covers the various issues of PKI from start to finish. Adding to the tremedous knowledge of John Vacca are contributions from various knowlegable colleagues.
The risks that are involved if proper security is not implemented are what makes this book and it's vast wealth of knowledge a must read!