The remarkable progress in data communications and networking necessitates new behaviors, principles, and disciplines concerning security. In addition to security techniques like encryption, authentication, established demilitarized zones (DMZs), and firewalls, a trend toward infusing security-oriented behavior and culture within organizations has emerged. This book is an effort to present the challenges and solutions to these issues via philosophical discussions, with an emphasis on system resilience rather than technical aspects.

Monographs about a scientific domain should be based on significant knowledge of the respective area. Here, the authors’ experience with the scientific and operational aspects of security is unclear. The book is mostly about implementing resilience in a system concerned with operations and security, which are somehow general ideas. Conciseness and coherence are the victims of the book, as the topic could be presented in a much briefer volume and with a more integrated style. There is no comprehensive list of references and the relevance of some footnotes is ambiguous.

The book is a rough presentation of some ideas and stories about system resilience. Although it asserts a lot about the implementation of security in systems, the effectiveness of the methods is unrealistic.

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