Trustworthy Computing : Analytical and Quantitative Engineering Evaluation

Content: Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Component and System Reliability and Review of Software Reliability (pages 1–77): Chapter 2 Software Reliability Modeling with Clustered Failure Data and Stochastic Measures to Compare Predictive Accuracy of Failure?Count Models (pages 78–118): Chapter 3 Quantitative Modeling for Security Risk Assessment (pages 119–171): Chapter 4 Stopping Rules in Software Testing (pages 172–230): Chapter 5 Availability Modeling Using the Sahinoglu–Libby Probability Distribution Function (pages 231–256): Chapter 6 Reliability Block Diagramming in Complex Systems (pages 257–308):

"The book itself is a commendable achievement, and it deals with the security and software reliability theory in an integrated fashion with emphasis on practical applications to software engineering and information technology. It is an excellent and unique book and definitely a seminal contribution and first of its kind."

—— C. V. Ramamoorthy

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California-Berkeley, and Senior Research Fellow, ICC Institute, The University of Texas-Austin, IEEE Life Fellow

Trustworthy Computing: Analytical and Quantitative Engineering Evaluation

presents an index-based, quantitative approach to advances in reliability and security engineering. Objective, metric-oriented, and data-driven, its goal is to establish metrics to quantify risk and mitigate risk through risk management. Based on the author's class-tested curriculum, it covers:

Fundamentals of component and system reliability and a review of software reliability

Software reliability modeling using effort-based and clustered failure data and stochastic comparative measures

Quantitative modeling for security and privacy risk assessment

Cost-effective stopping rules in software reliability testing

Availability modeling using Sahinoglu-Libby (S-L) Probability Distribution

Reliability block diagramming for Simple and Complex Embedded Systems

Complete with a CD-ROM containing case histories and projects that give readers hands-on experience, this is a great text for students in courses on security, reliability, and trustworthiness, as well as a reference for practicing software designers and developers, computer reliability and security specialists, and network administrators who work with data. 

 

This book is based on the author's advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course, Computer Security and Reliability, which he has been teaching for the past six years. The author takes an index based quantitative approach to the subject as opposed to the usual verbal or qualitative or subjective case histories. The TWC-Solver, available on an accompanying CD-ROM, contains 10 java-coded, main applications and hundreds of subitems, and assists the reader in understanding the numerical implementations of the book chapters "Trustworthy Computing: Analytical and Quantitative Engineering Evaluation presents an index-based, quantitative approach to advances in reliability and security engineering. Objective, metric-oriented, and data-driven, its goal is to establish metrics to quantify risk and mitigate risk through risk management."--Jacket