Cyberspace is a critical part of all of our lives. Unfortunately, many of those in the position to do something about cybersecurity do not have the skills to understand the issues fully. Cybersecurity for Everyone is intended to help by describing the issues so they are accessible to anyone from non-technical backgrounds.

David B. Skillicorn is Professor at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada. He was written extensively about security issues.

Preface

Introduction

How cyberspace works
Encounters with cyberspace

What is cyberspace?
Nodes
People
Pipes
Configuration
Types of traffic
The Deep Web
The Dark Web
The World Wide Web
Social aspects
Governance
Security issues
Non-benign use of cyberspace

Encryption and hashing
Private key encryption
Public key encryption
Digital signing and digital hashing
Encryption in use
Node security
Getting access to nodes
Malware
What does malware do?
Direct attacks

Pipe security
IP
TCP
UDP
Attacks leveraging protocols
Countermeasures

Configuration security
Internet Control Message Protocol
Domain Name Service
Switch vulnerabilities
Mounting an attack
Defending against attacks
Recovery

Application security
Email
Web traffic
Blockchains

Summary

Index