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Computer Network Security

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This is the only book I bought during graduate school (with the exception of a Motorola manual) and it was god awful. I wish I could go back an unbuy it. I only bought it because my professor wrote it and the man is an idiot. I learned nothing from the two classes I had to take from him. He couldn't even explain the basics of Shortest Path.

One of the students discovered that eight pages of this book were word for word verbatim taken from a Microsoft manual. The book doesn't go into any actual details on real security issues, but repeats rhetoric and buzz-words throughout the entirety of the book.

If your class requires this book, drop the class. I guarantee the class will be totally worthless.

Kizza gives the reader a very lucid and comprehensive education in current computer network security issues. Plus, the discussion is not limited to a particular network tool. While the book does usefully describe various key software packages (many of them open source and free!), it is also good at a conceptual level. So that you can understand the basic principles. Perhaps even to write your own.

What this means is that it's not the book for explaining the nuances of the very latest Nessus, for example. Look elsewhere for that. But it also means that this book can keep its value far longer. The concepts are the key to the book, and they are more likely to endure in new implementations of code.