Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists

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A New Approach to Environmental Engineering Education his exciting introduction to environmental modeling unites the principles underlying mass and momentum transport phenomena with environmental processes that ultimately determine the spread and control of pollutants in air, water, and soil.

Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists builds on integrated transport courses pioneered thirty years ago in the chemical engineering curriculum, and demonstrates the underlying unity of mass and momentum transport processes. It describes how these processes operate within the major environmental media, and how they underlie and unify the mechanics common to both pollutant transport and pollution control processes.

Offering a solid foundation for the development of improved environmental designs and models, this comprehensive text:

Covers the fundamentals of mass and momentum transport processes with an emphasis on aerosol and colloidal systems
Presents an environmental focus on sedimentation, coagulation, adsorption, filtration, dispersion, chromatography, and porous media transport
Includes chapters on chemical kinetics and reactor design
Includes worked examples and numerous exercises at the end of each chapter
Features numerous illustrations.

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Threat modeling has become one of the top security analysis methodologies that Microsoft's developers use to identify risks and make better design, coding, and testing decisions. This book provides a clear, concise explanation of the threat-modeling process, describing a structured approach you can use to assess the security vulnerabilities for any application, regardless of platform. Software designers and developers discover how to use threat modeling during the specification phase of a new project or a major revision—from verifying application architecture to identifying and evaluating threats and designing countermeasures. Test engineers discover how to apply threat-modeling principles when creating test plans to verify results. It's the essential, high-level reference for software professionals responsible for designing, refining, and maximizing the security features in their application architecture.

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Ok, so maybe I didn't read the book..........2007-06-10

...but Frank was a heck of alot smarter than me in high school, so I'm sure everything in there is right.

-David Wedeberg

Good coverage of the material, but far too redundant.......2005-07-08

The book is short at only a 169 pages but it could be shorter. My biggest complaint with this book is that it's incredibly redundant. The first two chapters are spent discussing why threat modeling is important. It is a valid point, as many people may be wondering why threat modeling is important or even what it is. Two chapters may be a little extensive, though, and constantly repeat the same ideas.

Page 13 of the introduction does make a statement that might help in avoiding much of this redundancy:

"Development team members who want to skim this book for an overview should look at Chapter 2, which describes the overall threat modeling process. Chapters 3 and 5 will also be valuable to those looking for shortcuts because they describe entry points, assets, and the threat profile. Chapter 4 describes bounding the threat modeling discussion. The rest of the chapters, which flesh out the threat modeling process, will be most important for a project's security process manager."

I, of course, read the whole thing. So, some redundancy is warranted, since this book itself implies that it is a sort of reference book. But even consecutive sections within the aforementioned chapters repeat the same statements. There is a difference between driving a point home and driving your reader crazy.

I would also add that - if you are going to use the book as a reference - you take a look at Part 4 - appendices A, B, and C - which are entire threat model documents for the three example features used throughout the book.

This book is a good book for anyone in software design and development to understand how to write secure software. Every entry and exit point is a threat, and unmitigated threats are vulnerabilities. Feature- and program-level threat modeling can help to mitigate those threats by identifying use cases and non-use cases for those entry points, roles accessing those entry points, threats associated with those entry points using the STRIDE classification (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Denial of service, and Elevation of privilege), the risk a threat poses using a DREAD rank (Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, and Discoverability), and internal and external notes about the threats. The book also points out that a threat model document is a living document, meaning that it should be kept current as the design of the feature or program changes.

-- Excerpt copied from my blog.

A practical method for doing Threat Modeling.......2005-06-25

This book describes one method to do Threat Modeling. There are many methods to do threat modeling, and the main objectives and meta-objectives such an exercise has are:

1) Avoid analysis paralysis.
2) Find a way of modeling your security as faithfully as possible.
3) Document interesting information that could influence your security.
4) Based on all the above make sure your system is managing its security properly.

The book presents an approach which is coherent, not always easy, as developing either a threat tree or the right DFD are no easy tasks, but yet one way.

It is imporant to note that the model presented works mostly for applications; not for drivers.

Takes a rudimentary exercise to new levels of tediousness.......2004-12-19

I believe threat modelling is a concept you either get or you don't--like how for some people building things comes naturally, but for others it's breaking things. This book attempts to formalize and codify the creative thought process of the latter while over-emphasizing its importance and severely trivializing the effort required to do it. Let's face it, creating a threat model for a telephone or a single web page is one thing, but doing it for a complex client-server application or networked system is a serious undertaking.

Strange that I don't recall the book ever mentioning the threat modelling software tool free from Microsoft (which they should have included on a CD with the book), given the pervasive "not invented here" attitude in the book and the numerous plugs for or from other Microsoft people. Having a software tool to assist with or at least record threat models is a great idea because make no mistake, threat modelling is a worthwhile endeavor. But no one's going to make diagrams by hand.

Speaking of diagrams, I found those in the book to be unnecessarily curvy and asymmetrical, making them difficult to read. A diagram should either be intuitive at first glance or flow nicely from one section to another--this book's diagrams are just a mess. Except perhaps the attack trees; not a new concept to security pros, these were the most sensical diagrams in this book about diagramming. Color would have been welcome to better differentiate the various pieces, and at least rough threat modelling seems to lend itself to the whiteboard, on which you can write using a rainbow of colors.

The book is also full of new terminology--which isn't such a bad thing if it's trying to standardize the disparate threat modellers' vocabularies, but it's not--and acronyms, from DREAD to STRIDE to "SPMs" in both cases seemingly presented as a refresher of historical fact. One term the book uses repeatedly (and repetitiveness is rampant) is penetration testing, mentioning that threat models make good pen test plans. Unfortunately pen testers think differently than this book seems to try to persuade threat modellers to think: certain attack vectors are summarily dismissed whereas a pen tester would take whatever he could get. The book also mentions code review as a testing tool, but never seems to say much about the traditional software QA tester playing a role.

Another blow to the book's potential value is the fact that the last third is devoted to threat model examples. Since the three example targets are discussed throughout the book it doesn't make sense to me to do this rather than in context. In general the book is too drawn out and would have been better suited to a whitepaper. It makes reference to Writing Secure Code which also covers threat modelling, as well as Assessing Network Security (yet another Microsoft book, go figure) which isn't a bad book but is less on-topic than perhaps the non-Microsoft title not referenced, How to Break Software Security.

While the subject of the book is important, and the book's introduction does a good job of getting the reader's attention, I don't think this book is worth the cover price or the time it'll take you to suffer through its dry presentation, unless you've been assigned to do threat modelling in your job and you have no idea where to begin. In that case you should definitely download Microsoft's free tool for it as well.

lots of good ideas, lots of annoying flaws.......2004-10-15

This was a very frustrating book to read. It appears to be targeted to a very specific type of reader, yet this reader isn't well described. It exists in a disciplinary vacuum; there are only two references; one of them is to the excellent Howard/LeBlanc "Writing Secure Code", the other is to a book written ten years ago. If you have to ask "what is UML and why is it important?", this book won't help.

On the other hand, if you're a member of a large software development team using formal design methods, this book will give you a workable approach to making sure that the security aspects of your project are comprehensively addressed.

There are two serious defects in the approach described by Swiderski and Snyder. The first is that their approach has serious scalability problems. Like nearly all software modeling methods, it's based on drawing pictures and making lists that must be manually collated and organized. (...)

The other defect in the book is its assumption that "an adversary will not attack the system without assets of interest." In fact, the vast majority of attacks these days are blind attacks from viruses and worms that attempt to invade any host they can gain access to, regardless of the value of any assets it may contain or represent. This fact requires the designer/defender to exhaustively address all possible vulnerabilities, not just the important ones. Managing the enormous list of possible attacks against possible vulnerabilities makes scalability a critical issue.

The threat modeling approach is probably the best one available for identifying security issues that must be addressed in a software system, but its current state is far from satisfactory.

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Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling
Chunmiao Zheng , and Gordon D. Bennett
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The challenges facing groundwater scientists and engineers today demand expertise in a wide variety of disciplines–geology, hydraulics, geochemistry, geophysics, and biology. As the number of the subdisciplines has increased and as each has become more complex and quantitative, the problem of integrating their concepts and contributions into a coherent overall interpretation has become progressively more difficult. To an increasing degree transport simulation has emerged as an answer to this problem, and the transport model has become a vehicle for integrating the vast amount of field data from a variety of sources and for understanding the relationship of various physical, chemical, and biological processes.

Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling is the first resource designed to provide coverage of the discipline’s basic principles, including the theories behind solute transport in groundwater, common numerical techniques for solving transport equations, and step-by-step guidance on the development and use of field-scale modeling. The Second Edition incorporates recent advances in contaminant transport theory and simulation techniques, adding the following to the original text:

-An expanded discussion of the role of aquifer heterogeneity in controlling solute transport
-A new section on the dual-domain mass transfer approach as an alternative to the classical advection-dispersion model
-Additional chemical processes and reactions in the discussion of reactive transport
-A discussion of the TVD (total-variation-diminishing) approach to transport solution
-An entirely new Part III containing two chapters on simulation of flow and transport under variable water density and under variable saturation, respectively, and a third chapter on the use of the simulation-optimization approach in remediation system design

Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Second Edition remains the premier reference for practicing hydrogeologists, environmental scientists, engineers, and graduate students in the field. In 1998, in recognition of their work on the first edition, the authors were honored with the John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award of the National Ground Water Association

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Suitability for those that are not engineers.......2005-10-14

This book provided an excellent explanation of the modeling of solutes and groundwater that conveyed a very good understanding of the challenges and methods used without resorting to the use of mathematical sophistication that actual ground water modelers no doubt possess.

In other words, I think that this book would benefit both those that are hydrologists and geologists as well as those that have had some training in environemental site assessment and remediation but have not been exposed to the actual number crunching that is essential for doing actual simulations.

Environmental Models: Emissions and Consequences : Riso International Conference 22-25, May 1989 (Developments in Environmental Modeling, No 15)

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