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Title: Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals
by Paul Campbell, Ben Calvert, Steven Boswell, Jeff Astley
ISBN: 0-619-21294-2
Publisher: Course Technology
Pub. Date: August, 2003
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $67.95
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Average Customer Rating: 2.9 (10 reviews)

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Rating: 1
Summary: Cheese
Comment: This textbook does not cover the material in the Security+ Exam. Entire test subjects are not included, and the lab exercises are terrible. The lab manual only includes a few useful labs and some of them are so outdated they are irrelevant. Authors contradict each other, and the chapters do not hold together well. If you're looking for a lightweight topical introduction, this may work for you, but it won't help you pass the certification exam. This is a very weak introduction to network security, and there are better books available that do cover the content you need to pass the exam. Consider instead "Principles of Computer Security: Security+ and Beyond" ISBN: 0072255099

Rating: 5
Summary: Horrible and Inadequete Reviewers
Comment: I rarely come back to a book I have reviewed to again make comment but in this case I'll make an exception. "I didn't take the Security+ test, but I can tell this book would be woefully useless for it. Avoid this item!" writes a reviewer from Provo Utah (where?). How on earth could this reviewer come to this conclusion. Osmosis? A mind-meld with with the question setters? A week in a box with David Blane. Based on this reviewer and his review I can tell that Provo Utah is awash with alien abductees. Well can't I? Another reviewer complains references to viruses and exploits etc being out of date. Get a life, time, tide and technology waits for no man. The top selling Firewall from Check Point has gone through three changes since this book was published. Are you looking for a supplement to be mailed to you every week? No, spoon feeding is what is wanted by some it appears. " Material is repeated verbatum several times over and the labs are the same in several chapters". I'm not surprised that they have to repeat things, from the reviews printed here it will take a lifetime for the publishers to get some of the concepts in this book through to some buyers/reviewers. On second thoughts don't buy this book as it seems to bring on uncontrollable bouts of fevered gibberish in some parts of the population. A clear attempt to dump on a good product, don't be had!

Rating: 1
Summary: A Horribly Inadequate Security Book
Comment: What a waste of my money! This book didn't help me learn security hardly at all. Why? Well, I'll give you several reasons.

First of all, the book is written by several authors and it shows. They frequently contradict each other, even on definitions of terms, and the material overlaps so much it's like deja vu.

The other major problem is that the explanations in the book are horrible and disjointed. Concepts and terms are referenced as if the reader already knows them--even though they aren't explained until later on.

And let's not forget the typos and poor English that dot this book. Was this even edited before going to press? I am so completely dissatisfied with this textbook. It's not valuable for anything except maybe firewood. I didn't take the Security+ test, but I can tell this book would be woefully useless for it. Avoid this item!

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