Computer Security: A Hands-on Approach

This book is a part of another book titled "Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach, 2nd Edition" (687 pages). It is created to lower the cost on students, as many courses only need this part. It covers 17 of the 26 chapters.

This book is based on the author's 18 years of teaching and research experience. It covers the fundamental principles in Computer Security, including software security, hardware security, web security, and cryptography. Its goal is to help readers understand how various attacks work, what their fundamental causes are, how to defend against them, and how various defense mechanisms work. The book can be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses.

The author strongly believes in "learning by doing", so the book takes a hands-on approach. For each security principle, the book uses a series of hands-on activities to help explain the principle; readers can "touch", play with, and experiment with the principle, instead of just reading about it. For instance, if a security principle involves an attack, the book guides readers to actually launch the attack (in a contained environment). Readers can learn better from such hands-on activities.

The hands-on activities are based on the author's widely adopted SEED Labs, which have been used by over 1000 institutes in more than 65 countries.

這本書是另一本名為「電腦與網路安全：實作導向」第二版（687頁）的書的一部分。它的目的是為了降低學生的負擔，因為許多課程只需要這部分內容。它涵蓋了26章中的17章。

這本書基於作者18年的教學和研究經驗。它涵蓋了電腦安全的基本原則，包括軟體安全、硬體安全、網路安全和密碼學。它的目標是幫助讀者了解各種攻擊的工作原理、其根本原因、如何防禦以及各種防禦機制的運作方式。這本書可以作為本科和研究生課程的教科書使用。

作者堅信「學以致用」，所以這本書採用了實作導向的方法。對於每個安全原則，書中使用一系列的實作活動來幫助解釋原則；讀者可以「觸摸」、玩弄和實驗原則，而不僅僅是閱讀。例如，如果一個安全原則涉及攻擊，書中會引導讀者實際發動攻擊（在受控環境中）。讀者可以從這樣的實作活動中更好地學習。

這些實作活動基於作者廣泛採用的SEED實驗室，已經被超過65個國家的1000多所學院使用。