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An overview of basic computer security concepts is presented along with a brief history of major computer security events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This is followed by a description of the most important computer security vulnerabilities that exist today and countermeasures being used to mitigate them. Future trends in computer security are assessed.
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Duffany, J.L. (2018). Computer Security. In: Daimi, K. (eds) Computer and Network Security Essentials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58424-9_1
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