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Summary: One excellent security resource!!
Comment: Practical, indeed, and insightful! Loaded with security principles and procedures to enforce those principles. A valuable, lasting security guide for its principles alone; this is not one of those books that will be obsolete in a couple years. Very broad, covering all major aspects of computer security; it's like many books in one. Teaches the whats, whys, and hows of each aspect. Also contains some history as well as some humorous accounts. Descriptions and procedures are applied to the most popular Unix systems (focuses on Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, & FreeBSD, but discusses many more). Very educational, understandable, and practical--even for newbies like me desiring to lock down their system. Appendix contains a helpful security checklist summarizing each chapter's content.
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Summary: Outstanding resource for Network Security
Comment: Book Review
By: Brett Practical Unix & Internet Security Wow where to begin, First I would like to say that my forte is Network security and this book really covered it all.
Had nice presentation, easy to follow and was very detailed. From the opening line to the last page this book has
something for everybody that is interested in keeping there computers and network secure and safe!
I have tried several of the what-if's and scripts provided or recommended settings on my own network and they
worked as describe. There was a lot of research put into this book and also timely material so as to not be outdated
when it hits the shelves. The Appendixes very an especially nice touch with loads of valuable information and checklist.
I would not hesitate to recommend this book to everyone from Novices on there home computer to Network admins
running multi billion dollar operations.
Again very well done!
~Brett~
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Summary: A great resource
Comment: Being relatively new to unix security, I've found this book to be an immense help. It provides both a quick and easy reference to the generalities of security, while providing more indepth information when necessary. With its help, I feel relatively confident about the security of my home network.I was also pleased to see that many of the concepts covered for larger implementations were noticable in the security policies and paradigm of my workplace, which makes use of numerous LANs and WANs for day to day business, many of which requiring security anbd confidentiality. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in unix and internet security, be they new to the field or firmly established.
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Summary: Little Giant. . . Vade Mecum
Comment: The second edition of this book was my security vade mecum for the last 8 years. For what I can foresee, this third edition, will play the same role for (at least) the next three years.When you are required as an security expert, several tasks are usually to be faced:
New scenarios to analyze?, checklists to recommend?, good firewall architectures to suggest?, logs to watch? (and so on). Don't worry, with the only help of this Garfinkel, Spafford and Schwartz 'little giant' book, you are done. Excellent book. A Must for security people.
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Summary: Little old but still a valuable classic
Comment: Practical UNIX and Internet Security by Garfinkel and Spafford is a fundamental work on the subject. The authors not only are widely respected professionals in the field, but good writers as well (or is this O'Reilly's editors? :-). Anyway, this book despite its size is readable, still has lots of information, and comes highly recommended. As one of the other reviewers of this book has written, the details of systems and software may change, but the underlying security and good management practices will not. The reason I give it 4 out of 5 stars is because it is published a while ago.
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