NMON Network Monitoring: Books: Network Security

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Professional
Category: EBooks

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

(17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14424

Format: Kindle Book
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 752

Dewey Decimal Number: 005
ASIN: B001ADIWNI

Publication Date: May 26, 2008
Release Date: May 26, 2008
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Excellent Textbook September 3, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

Great book for learning cryptography, authentication, or about Internet Standards such as PKI and Kerberos. It is heavy on the math and theory aspects, the book actually includes an interesting chapter on Number Theory. The last chapter entitled Folklore is a refreshing way to cap off the book. The one catch is that there is little to no pseudo-code included with the examples, so you code junkies will have to start from scratch. Overall the author's attempt at a light approach to dense material helps ease the fact that it really is dense material. It covers the bases and has some nice extra material.

4 out of 5 stars

Some great stuff, but narrowly focused October 26, 2003
26 out of 28 found this review helpful

I worked for 10 years in computer and network security, including many years as a cryptanalyst and a couple of years at a startup company. I now teach at San Jose State University, where I'm using this book as the primary textbook for a graduate class in computer security. The strengths of the the book are its coverage of basic cryptography (chapters 2 thru 6), "security handshake pitfalls" (chapter 11) and "security folklore" (chapter 26).

Chapter 11 alone is worth the (high) price of the book. It is absolutely the best introduction to the subtle issues that arise with network protocols you are likely to ever find. And Chapters 2 through 6 do a better job of covering cryptography (with particular emphasis on some of the not-so-obvious issues) than many books devoted solely to cryptography. And chapter 26 makes some nice points.

One criticism I have is that---with few exceptions---the rest of the book does not come close to the standard achieved in the chapters mentioned above. The chapter on SSL/TLS is OK and the chapter on Kerberos is passable (if dull), but the remaining chapters are relatively weak. Another criticism is that the title of the book is misleading. Outside of the cryptography chapters, the book is very narrowly focused on networking protocols. In my opinion, there is far more to network security than cryptography and protocols. Take a look at Ross Anderson's book, Security Engineering, to get a nice broad overview of security. Finally, the chapters related to IPsec are really poor. The author(s) seems to be so peeved with the standards committee for doing some stupid things that he/she/they do more carping than describing.

In summary, I highly recommend chapters 2 thru 6, 11 and 26. But you'll need to look elsewhere if you want to learn about more than protocols and cryptography.

5 out of 5 stars Focused, Concise, Organized, Easy to read - - 5 Stars October 2, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Focused, Concise, Organized, Easy to read - - 5 Stars

I found the second edition an excellent piece of work. The content is focused, consise, and easy to ready. This is the case, even though the complex subject matters could easily have been made more difficult and confusing. This was well organized. Not just a list of facts. The diagrams are very helpful. This book does not include alot of fluff and delivers the content in a personal and pertinent manner.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent reference. Concise, to the point very readable June 3, 2003
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World is one of the best technical security books around.

This edition is updated from the first edition to include topics such as IPSec, SSL/TLS, e-commerce, PKI and more.

The book is geared for system programmers and developers who need to add security and cryptographic functionality into their systems. Those looking for a high-level security book will not really benefit from this title.

The authors writing style is quite readable, especially about such a subject that can be quite dry at times. The book is not as deep and theoretical as Schneier's
Applied Cryptography' (and is also much shorter), but is clearly written to be much more practical.

The book is made for those that have somewhat of a background in security and cryptography. The newbie will likely be overwhelmed with a lot of the concepts and implementation issues.

Overall, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World is an excellent reference and text for anyone needing to come up to speed in infosec. It is concise, to the point and very readable.

5 out of 5 stars A great book got even better May 26, 2002
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

The second edition of this witty and informative book on network security is even better than the first edition and is clearly the best book on the subject currently available. Secret and public key algorithms and protocols, message hashes, authentication, Kerberos, PKI, IPsec, SSL/TLS, and e-mail security are all explained at length. Chapter 26 on security folklore is a real gem. In security, the devil is in the details. For anyone planning to design a security system that is actually supposed to work, this chapter is must reading. The book is aimed at readers with a university degree in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. If you want to learn everything there is to know about network security, look no further.

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