Description based on online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed Aug. 23, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet basics -- Digital economy -- Online retail banking : security concerns, breaches, and controls -- Digital libraries : security and preservation considerations -- E-mail and instant messaging -- Internet relay chat -- Online communities -- Groupware : risks, threats, and vulnerabilities in the internet age -- Search engines : security, privacy, and ethical issues -- Web services -- Electronic commerce -- EDI security -- Electronic payment systems -- Intranets : principals, privacy, and security considerations -- Extranets : applications, development, security, and privacy -- Business-to-business commerce -- Click-and-brick commerce -- Mobile commerce -- E-education and information privacy and security -- Security in e-learning -- E-government -- E-government security issues and measures -- International security issues of e-government -- Conducted communication media -- Routers and switches -- Radio frequency and wireless communications security -- Wireless channels -- Security in circuit, message, and packet switching -- Digital communication -- Local area networks -- Wide area and metropolitan area networks -- Home area networking -- Public network technologies and security -- Client/server computing : principles and security considerations -- Peer-to-peer security -- Security middleware -- Internet architecture -- TCP/IP suite -- Voice-over internet protocol (VoIP) -- Security and web quality of service -- Mobile devices and protocols -- Bluetooth technology -- Wireless local area networks -- Security in wireless networks -- Cellular networks -- Mobile IP -- IP multicast and its security -- TCP over wireless links -- Air interface requirement for mobile data services -- Wireless internet : a cellular perspective -- Security of satellite networks -- Security of broadband access networks -- Ad hoc network security -- Standards for product security assessment -- Digital certificates -- Internet e-mail architecture -- PKI (public key infrastructure) -- S/MIME (secure MIME) -- PGP (Pretty good privacy) -- SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) -- Internet security standards -- Kerberos -- IPsec : AH and ESP -- IPsec : IKE (internet key exchange) -- Secure sockets layer (SSL) -- PKCS (public key crytography standards) -- Public key standards : secure shell -- Security and the wireless application protocol -- Wireless network standards and protocol 802.11 -- P3P (platform for privacy preferences project).