HOW TO PROTECT TRANSPORT CYBERSPACE

Abstract

The review of the book:

Railway Information Security and Data Protection [Informatsionnaya bezopasnost’ i zaschita informatsii na zheleznodorozhnom transporte]. Textbook. In 2 parts. Part 1: Methodology and the system of providing of railway information security, 440 p. Part 2: Firmware of providing of railway information security, 448 p. Edited by Kornienko, A.A. (Adadurov, S.E. et alt). Moscow, Uchebnometodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte [Training and methodological center of railway education], 2014.

ABSTRACT

The first part of the textbook under review is dedicated to systematic description of basic data concerning methodology of information security. 

The second part refers to system review of firmware and instruments of information security of railway corporate information, automatic and control. 

The textbook describes basic tools of data protection against unauthorized access, instruments of protection of databases, architecture and protective measures within corporate computing systems based on mainframes of zSeries, principles of information security and data protection (control of access, anti-virus tools, protected segment of e-mail, infrastructure of open keys), firmware of data protection within the zone of a railway, instruments of confirming conformity and certification of software.

The reviewer notes that the textbook concerns almost all autonomous courses that are included in relevant study courses and syllabus. 

The reviewed book gives possibility to reviewer to differentiate the notions of cybersecurity, computer security, information security, data security, cyberspace, cyberthreat, and to offer his proper system vision of the related problems, to underline the need to search of solutions which will be well adapted to each given organization.