Tobias on Locks and Insecurity Engineering

MARC WEBER TOBIAS, J.D., is the author of eight law enforcement and security textbooks, including Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference. He has lectured extensively, worked for government agencies as an investigator and prosecutor involved in major crimes, and has consulted with the world’s largest lock manufacturers. He has been issued 30 U.S. patents.

• Foreword xxxiiiIntroduction xxxvPart I Locks, Safes, and Insecurity Engineering 1Chapter 1 Insecurity Engineering and the Design of Locks 3Chapter 2 Insecurity Engineering: A Lack of Expertise and Imagination 25Chapter 3 Vulnerability Assessment in Lock Designs 49Chapter 4 The 3T2R Rule for Assessing the Security of a Lock 67Part II Legal and Regulatory Issues in Locks, Safes, and Security Systems 87Chapter 5 Security Is All About Liability 89Chapter 6 Legal Liability and Insecurity Engineering 103Chapter 7 Standards for Locks and Safes 131Chapter 8 Patents, Security, and the Protection of Intellectual Property 163Chapter 9 Notification of Defects in Product Design 187Chapter 10 Legal and Security Issues in Keying Systems 209Part III Basic Designs and Technologies for Mechanical and Electronic Locks 231Chapter 11 A Brief History of Lock Design and Development 233Chapter 12 Industry Definitions 257Chapter 13 Modern Locking Mechanisms: A Merging of Old and New Technology 279Chapter 14 A Comparison of High-Security Lock Designs 317Part IV Design and Insecure Engineering of Locks 339Chapter 15 Attacks Against Locks: Then and Now 341Chapter 16 An Overview: Vulnerability Analysis in Designs and Testing 379Chapter 17 Destructive Attacks Against Locks and Related Hardware 395Chapter 18 Covert Methods of Entry 417Chapter 19 Attacks Against Electronic Locks 445Chapter 20 Advanced Attacks Against High-Security Locks 459Part V Attacks on Key Control and Special Keying Systems 475Chapter 21 Attacking Keys and Keying Systems 477Chapter 22 Advanced Attacks on Key Control: 3D Printers and Special Software 507Chapter 23 Digital Fingerprints of Locks: Electronic Decoding Systems 523Chapter 24 Code-Setting Keys: A Case Study of an Attack on High-Security Key Control 537Part VI Specific Case Examples 545Chapter 25 Case Examples from Part VII Rules 547Chapter 26 Case Examples By Category 571Part VII Design Rules, Axioms, and Principles 597Chapter 27 Design Rules, Axioms, and Guidelines 599Epilogue 625Appendix A Patents Issued 627Appendix B Trademark Listing 629Index 633

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