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Security+ Guide to Networking Security Fundamentals, Second Edition
written by Mark Ciampa
Studio : Course Technology
by Course Technology
Publisher : Course Technology
Released : 2004-10-19
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780619215668
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 11 reviews)
List Price : $106.95
Our Price : $60.00
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Completely rewritten to include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 coverage and other cutting-edge technologies, this best selling text will ensure your students' success on CompTIA's latest Server+ Exam. |
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It is been almost a month and a half and did not received this book in the mail. |
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This is a pretty good book. I'm taking the course at a Community College and bought the book online since it wasn't available in the bookstore. Material is very thorough in covering subject matter. It is presented in a way that is easy to understand. |
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Great Product from a great seller! |
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Product arrived on time and in condition stated. Would buy from this seller again. |
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If you buy this, you probably deserve to be slapped. |
Let me first say I own this book, and have read it cover to cover. It is garbage. A few "key concepts" in the Sec+ exam are barely even covered. In its defense, it is not as dry as many other technical books, but I'd take a dry book with some substance over a interesting book that teaches me nothing. Don't take my word for it though... look at the preceding reviews!
- "Incorrect "facts" and poor organization"
- "Lightweight textbook"(Is that really a plus? So is an empty notebook!)
- "...shouldn't be relied on as the only resource"
- "...only reason I bought this book is because it was for a class, otherwise I would have chosen a different book ...)
- "Not worth the money"
and the list goes on... Find a different book, not too many out there that won't beat this one! |
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Incorrect "facts" and poor organization |
I have only made it to chapter 6 of this book and just glossing over most of it at that and here are some glaring mistakes I have seen so far.
Chapter 6, titled "Web Security", well, let's just look at the chapter summary in the introduction. "Web Security begins by discussing how to protect e-mail systems, the technology most vital to Internet users. The chapter also examines vulnerabilities of the World Wide Web and how to protect Web communications. In addition, this chapter discusses instant messaging and how to harden it." Why are we discussing e-mail and IM in a chapter about Web security? These are both handled by separate protocols and separate applications both client and server side. Why is this worded (and the chapter ordered) to start with and focus on e-mail security?
In the same chapter there is discussion of JavaScript. To quote the book again, "One popular technology used to make dynamic content is JavaScript. Based on the programming language Java, JavaScript is a special program code embedded into an HTML document....The Web browser then executes that code within the browser using the Virtual Machine (VM), which is a Java interpreter." WRONG. JavaScript is not based on Java and has nothing to do with it. Java was developed by Sun. JavaScript was originally developed by Netscape under the name LiveScript when they decided that Java was too heavy for the functionality that they were wanting in an embedded scripting language. Due to bad/confused marketing folks LiveScript was later renamed JavaScript. While JavaScript does execute in a virtual machine, it is not the Java Virtual Machine.
Earlier in the book in the section about hardening servers and services one of the easiest (in many cases, anyway) things to do was left out. Why did the author not mention configuring services to not advertise their exact version? In most Unix/Linux daemons this is as simple as changing one line in the config file for the daemon.
I can only wonder about what I will find as I continue reading and when I read over the book more thoroughly. |
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