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Computer Security Fundamentals (Prentice Hall Security Series)

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Computer Security Fundamentals (Prentice Hall Security Series)

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780131711297
ISBN: 0131711296
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2005-03-13
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Summary: Good stuff
Comment: The book is easy to read and seems like a great resource. Awesome place to start building a knowledge-base.
Customer Rating: Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5
Summary: Good for Students/Instructors; Bad for Practitioners
Comment: As all the PH books in the Security series, this book targets instructors and students using this as a text for a course. The book does place a nice primer down (the main objective)and covers a nice scope on security topics but it certainly doesn't cover the first coat of "security paint" (no depth). Although it has a 2006 copyright, some identified links are now obsolete (as expected).

I purchased this book to gain/expand/recall "computer security fundamentals" as a practicing ERP system administrator. I am not a student or instructor so have no privy to the solutions to the questions, exercises, and projects provided at the end of each chapter (not even a few). These solutions would greatly reinforce the associated chapter topics. I issued email to the author asking for guidance (how do I know if my answers were correct) using the provided email address and received no response.

So, although I do not consider perusal of this book a waste of time, I do not recommend it to practitioners. Spend your dollars elsewhere on more "Schaum's Outline" type books.

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Summary: An excellent place to start
Comment: I am using this book for an internet security course. The book is very informative and fairly easy to comprehend from a beginning standpoint. I agree that it includes information that other introductory books do not. This is one text that I will keep for future reference because of its broad scope of information on the important topic of internet security.
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Summary: Very Good Book
Comment: I am using this book for an introduction to computer security course I teach. It has the breadth of topics I need (fundamentals of viruses, trojan horses, denial of service, firewalls, IDS, anti spyware, etc.). It even has some material few introductory books cover (cryptography, identity theft).

It has excellent exercises and review questions. I can unequivocally recomend it.
Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Outstanding book for beginners
Comment: I teach computer science at a small regional college. I had to review over a dozen different books for our introduction to computer security course. This book is hands down the very best for a beginner. It gives a broad introduction to all aspects of computer security (including some areas other books ignore completely). It also is replete with references, places to look for more information, and practical exercises.

This is the best book for a beginner.
  
Editorial Reviews:

KEY BENEFIT: This gateway into the world of computer security provides one-volume coverage of all the basic concepts, terminology and issues, along with practical skills essential to security.  Topics covered range from those commonly found in security books such as virus attacks, buffer overflow, hacking spyware and network defense, as well as more specialized areas including cyber terrorism, industrial espionage and encryption.  Providing a comprehensive introduction, this volumes examines assessing a target system, denial of service attacks, malware, basics of assessing and securing a system, encryption, Internet fraud, and cyber crime, industrial espionage, cyber terrorism and information warfare, cyber detective, security hardware and software.  For system analysts network administrators, network security professionals and security audit professionals.
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