From the reviews: 'Network desingers, engineers, practitioners, and managers will find in this book a systematica and practical approach to hardening networks against attacks. The book is aimed at a wide audience that also includes graduate and senior undergraduate students, policy makers, and consultants in various sectors, including industry, miltary and government...this interesting and information-packed book fulfils its purpose and will be very useful for students, network security professionals, and decision makers. "ACM COMPUTER REVIEWS "Teaching or studying asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks? Want a reference book on the security aspects? Then this book could be for you! ... this book, with its very thorough modelling of potential attacks on ATM networks, should be required reading for those professional systems engineers responsible for the security of such systems. The book covers its chosen topic very well ... ." (Keith Wain, www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk, February, 2003)