Network Administrator's Security Resource Guide [Spiral-bound]

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 2000

This book and companion CD (included) is filled with up-to-date information and network security strategies to keep your enterprise's computers safe from unwanted intruders. You'll learn how to identify weak spots in your infrastructure, eliminate potential threats, and deal with clean-up should a security breach occur.

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Welcome to TechRepublic's first-ever Security complilation. Here you will find advice, tips, tricks, and helpful files to bring you closer to that piece of mind every IT professional and network administrator is searching for.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 270 pages
• Publisher: TechRepublic; Book & CD edition (August 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970395329
• ISBN-13: 978-0970395320
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,415,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for small company LANs and desktop support pros, July 5, 2001

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This review is from: Network Administrator's Security Resource Guide (Spiral-bound)

This book is an uneven collection of articles, tips and techniques that is more applicable to a PC-centric computing and desktop office automation. It's a great resource for small companies or workgroup administrators, but is a bit too light for enterprise-wide security. If you are the LAN administrator for a small company that uses consumer operating systems and applications, such as Microsoft's Windows family, you will find this book to be an invaluable source of information. If you are responsible for security in a larger multi-platform enterprise, especially one that spans multiple locations and is dependent upon business-critical applications and e-commerce or ERP suites, you will probably find this book too lite and not slanted towards the issues that you need to address. If you call into the latter group I strongly recommend CERT Guide to System and Network Security Practices by Julia Allen.