In search of the cuckoo´s nest [computer security]

In C. Stoll´s recent book, The Cuckoo´s Egg, he describes the pursuit of a computer hacker who, like the cuckoo, left something in the computing nests of other users. The author offers an auditing perspective to find the vulnerable computer nest which may have some malicious code planted in it by an intruder because of a breakdown in security design or practice of the targeted computing environment nest. He examines the security implications for an increasingly open network architecture, the lessons learned from performing intrusion post-mortems, the need for architecture plans and systems engineering for security, and an audit framework for evaluating security