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ОглавлениеAbout the Author
I've been active in information security since dinosaurs roamed the earth, computing‐wise. My real‐world experience includes more than seven years at the National Security Agency followed by two years at a Silicon Valley startup company. While I can't say too much about my work at NSA, I can tell you that my job title was Cryptologic Mathematician. In industry I helped design and develop a digital rights management security product. This real‐world experience was sandwiched between academic jobs. While in academia, my research has dealt with a wide variety of security‐related topics, frequently including various aspects of machine learning and deep learning.
When I returned to academia in the early years of this century, there were few security books available, and none seemed to have much connection with the real world. I felt that I could write a textbook that would fill this gap, and that the resulting book could serve a dual purpose as both a textbook and a useful resource for working IT professionals. Based on the feedback I've received, the first two editions seem to have been reasonably successful in both aspects.
I believe that this third edition will prove even more valuable in its dual role as a textbook and as a resource for working professionals, but, of course, I'm biased. I can say that many of my former students who are now at leading Silicon Valley technology companies (some having started their own such companies) tell me that the material they learned in my courses has been useful to them. And I certainly wish that a book like this had been available when I worked in industry, since my colleagues and I would have benefitted greatly from it.
I do have a life outside of information security.1 My family includes my lovely wife, Melody, and two excellent sons, Austin (whose initials are AES), and Miles (whose initials are not DES, thanks to Melody). We enjoy the outdoors, with regular local hiking trips, among many other activities. I spend much of my free time kayak fishing and sailing in the Monterey Bay, or working on my perpetual fixer‐upper house in the wildfire‐and‐earthquake prone Santa Cruz mountains.
