IEEE S&P: Securing Online Games (vol.7, no.3)
IEEE Security & Privacy magazine remains the most important trade periodical on security published today. Though the content is on rare occasion esoteric, the magazine is always technically accurate and detailed. Only a peer reviewed publication can offer readers a look at computer security as a science. Think of it as applied academics.
I am pleased to announce that IEEE Security & Privacy magazine’s May/June 2009 edition was recently released. The issue (volume 7: number 3) covers Securing Online Games in a series of four peer reviewed articles that help define the state of the practice.
For more about the issue, see: [www.computer.org]
Also in the same issue is a print transcript of Silver Bullet 36. That’s the episode where James McGovern turned the tables and interviewed me. That transcript is on the web here.
Beautiful Security
Also of note is a book of thoughtful essays on security put together by John Viega (once a Cigitalite) and Andy Oram. Here’s my original blurb from the back cover:
“This collection of thoughtful essays catapults the reader well beyond deceptively shiny security FUD (the drum major of the bug parade) toward the more subtle beauty of building security in. Security is an essential emergent property for all modern systems—something that most people implicitly expect and few people explicitly receive. This book demonstrates the yin and the yang of security, and the fundamental creative tension between the spectacularly destructive and the brilliantly constructive. Read. Learn. Emulate.”
I’m still working my way a second time through the assembled essays from security stars including mudge, Betsy Nichols, Phil Zimmermann, Mark Curphy, and Jim Routh. This is a must read for 2009.