Customer Reviews

Computer Security

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I bought this book for a distance learning class and had to have it shipped to an APO account overseas. The seller was quick with his shipping and the book was in great condition.

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For anyone that is just getting into computer security, this is a great book to have. Great service by seller.

i used this book in a university course, i got very little out of it. it had handwavy explanations for almost every topic it discussed. when i tried to actually use the material, i found it useless because it skipped all the details. i had to spend hours on hours googling and wikiing to find information that the bok should have had.

This is not an introductory book, or even a well though out or edited entry level graduate book. As I pointed out in the title of my review, I am a university student already familiar with security having had an introductory security course and two other technical security courses. I found this book to be overly complex and would not recommend it.

I am editing out most of my previous review. I misspoke and the author does make a case for users being a major threat to computer security. His book attempts to deepen the technical subject of security, unfortunately he does so by making it over complex, although in fairness I must say he does make roads into illuminating security being created at the kernal level. Otherwise I found little comparable value in it and having taken two additional graduate courses on security and can whole heartily endorse Charles and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger's Security in computing, for those with a little computer back ground this book will take you far.

Satya

I am taking a Data and Network Security course at my University and they are using this book as the text. It is an excellent text and written very plainly in a clear and definitive manner. Consider it an excellent overview.