Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals [Paperback]

Peter Norton (Author), Mike Stockman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Peter Norton (Sams) | Publication Date: November 19, 1999

For courses in Network Security. Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals is a fundamental reference that allows students to build and implement a successful network strategy. It provides an overview of common network types and how to form a successful network strategy around those types. It addresses common network systems and protocols that are used in the world today. It also describes the security measures required to keep a system running smoothly and securely.

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From the Back Cover

Peter Norton's Guide to Network Security provides an overview of common network types and then supplies the details necessary to build and implement a successful network security strategy. Because most commercial networks use a combination of new and legacy equipment and systems, Peter Norton's Guide to Network Security addresses the common network systems and protocols that network administrators use daily and describes the security measures necessary to keep the systems working smoothly and securely.

About the Author

Peter Norton's name is internationally synonymous with PC expertise. His group has created a best-selling suite of utilities that includes the Norton Utilities, Norton Anti-Virus, Norton Desktop, and Norton pcANYWHERE. Some of these technologies have been incorporated into Windows 95 system tools. Among his titles published with SAMS are Complete Guide to DOS 6.22, Inside the PC, & Complete Guide to Access 97 Programming.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (November 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672316919
• ISBN-13: 978-0672316913
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,608,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent introduction, May 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals (Paperback)

This is an extremely useful primer on network security. After looking through a number of books, I chose this one as a starting point because of its clear organization and language.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars useful book, April 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals (Paperback)

As a more novice reader, I found this book to be very informative, practical and clearly written. I learned a great deal of information that I could directly apply to my work and home computing. I was amazed at the simple and practical tools available to every computer user which are not implemented to protect network security.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to network security fundamentals, November 26, 2000

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Joe Buchberger (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals (Paperback)

As this book points out numerous times, network security is really a trade off between convenience (wide open with no restrictions) and safety (totally locked down to where no one has access). How this trade off is accomplished in today's typical networking environment is covered quite clearly and concisely in this short book.

Things I liked were the organization and explanation of each of the common security tools available, such as firewalls, third party authentication and VPN's, with clear discussions of the inherent advantages and disadvantages of each, as well as the authors recommendations on where each should reside on the network. The authors provide great references for additional resources on areas outside the scope of this book also, such as websites, organizations and user groups where more exhaustive information may be obtained.

What I found annoying was the boilerplate assembly process used throughout much of the book, where the exact paragraph or group of paragraphs as well as example figures, was replicated whenever a topic overlapped. For example, the discussion of smart cards came up in chapter 5, "Letting Users Connect Securely", along with a cute diagram of one style of hardware security token, and then again in chapter 6, "About Authentication and Passwords" we are treated to the exact same set of four or five paragraphs along with the very same example diagram.

Overall though, this is a very informative, if short (at only 232 pages), introduction to the subject of network security. Perhaps a better title would have been "Peter Norton's *Introduction* to Network Security Fundamentals."